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TIL only one MythBusters result has been labeled as Busted/Plausible/Confirmed

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4vn5 TIL one of Brigham Young’s 55 wives bravely divorced him and wrote the best seller “Wife No. 19,” an autobiography lambasting Mormonism and polygamy.
Nr9E TIL A French painter was highly acclaimed by art critics but something they didn’t know was he was a chimpanzee
Me6EK TIL Chris Wedge (the voice of Ice Ages Scrat) made an animated short film while in Ohio State University in 1985.
rREx1 TIL that until 2000 if a director disavowed a film his name was replaced with "Alan Smithee" in the credits. In 1998 Arthur Hiller made a film about an Alan Smithee who tries to disavow a movie, but can't because of his name. Hiller later disavowed it and his name was replaced with Alan Smithee.
1Re7 TIL Pink has no corresponding wavelength, it’s our brains filling in the gap between ultra violet and infra red light in the color spectrum. Put simply, pink is what you get when you remove the color green from white light.