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TIL 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. Test yourself!

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BrQkx TIL that the name of the band Cage The Elephant came after an incident where a mentally disturbed man approached them after a show, hugged the lead singer Matt Shultz and kept repeating the sentence 'You have to cage the elephant'.
WvaN TIL: Hells Angels attempted to Kill Mick Jagger in 1975. They tried to drive a boat up to the Long Island Mansion he was staying at, however, the boat sank and the Hells Angels ended up having to swim for their lives.
W769 TIL just how historically inaccurate Braveheart actually was. Prince Edward II (by then the king) didn’t marry Isabella of France until 3 years after William Wallace was hung, drawn, and quartered. She was 13 years old.
xWoD TIL that production on 2014 biblical epic film Noah was delayed due to ‘heavy rain and flooding’ on location from Hurricane Sandy
x6LxB TIL on 1993, at 17, David Hahn, a young teenage nuclear radiation enthusiast, managed to create a neutron source in order to build a breeder reactor in his mother's backyard