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TIL that a man and his friends made it from NY to CA in 28 hours and 50 minutes going the fastest they can in a Mercedes

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5Vv4n TIL Natalie Holt, the music composer for the Paddington movie and Loki TV show, threw eggs at Simon Cowell to protest his "dreadful influence on the music business" when she was performing in the backing orchestra for one of the finalists in Britain's Got Talent.
vPDED TIL that Red-Green forms of colour blindness and more common than Blue-Yellow because the former comes from the x-chromozone pair, which in men is xy and thus men are more likely to have Red-Green colour blindness; Blue-Yellow's source is a chromozone pair 7 and thus not sex-based
7r0pL TIL Danny Trejo did the voice of Raul, an Irradiated Ghoul, in Fallout: New Vegas.
vP4n4 TIL that Marilyn Monroe was a method actor. She studied with the method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg, who also taught actors such as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Dean.
nDNr TIL that the Hope diamond glows a brilliant red for several minutes after being exposed to UV light.