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TIL that the exclusive rights to use the color vantablack are owned by artist Anish Kapoor and nobody else is allowed to use it. As a revenge, another artist created the pinkest pink which everyone is allowed to use, except Anish

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BoNW TIL during a brief power-outage at Nirvana in Munich, Krist Novoselic joked “We’re on the way out. Grunge is dead. Nirvana’s over.“ It would be Nirvana’s last concert before Cobain’s death.
449a TIL that “gorilla” comes from a Greek word meaning “a tribe of hairy women.”
BrOgk TIL about Cliff Young. An Australian farmer who, at 61 years old, won an "Ultramarathon", running for over 5 days without stopping.
Y7P97 TIL that Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda after the video game.
WkP4Y TIL that the North America — and the USA in particular, has the world's most extreme weather, averaging more than 10,000 severe thunderstorm events per year, with more than 1,000 tornadoes.