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TIL red and blue are different colors

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vP0N7 TIL: Martin Scorsese's special effect team created a "traveling booger matte" to remove a large blob of cocaine from Neil Young's nose during his appearance in the 1978 film "The Last Waltz".
awllN TIL when John Lennon performed "Woman Is the N****r of the World" on the Dick Cavett Show, Cavett was told to apologise for the song's content before the performance. The show received about 600 letters of complaint - but all criticized Cavett's apology, not the song's lyrics.
Z8rvR TIL: Tim Burton cast Black actors Billy Dee Williams and Marlon Wayans as 'Harvey Dent' and 'Robin' - Both actors were contracted to appear in Batman Forever but Burton's choices were later reversed by director Joel Schumacher who chose to replace the pair with Tommy Lee Jones & Chris O'Donnell.
5VLoQ TIL that "Disaster Girl" Zoe Roth, who was 4 in the meme photo, sold an NFT of the pic in 2021 for a little under a half million dollars. She used the $ to pay off student loans after earning a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
mk0v TIL that in Jamestown in 1619, you could purchase a wife for 120 pounds of tobacco.