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TILT Anish Kapoor owns the exclusive rights to the blackest black and another artist called Stuart Semple created the pinkest pink for everyone to use apart from Anish

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Xde6 TIL that in 1915, scam artist Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the ‘result,’ a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
5Yrn8 TIL Germans have nothing to do with German chocolate cake. It was made by an American whose last name was "German".
yQLrp TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.
AD5ao TIL of a tribe in the Vanavatu Islands which worship Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh (Husband of Queen Elisabeth II) as a divine being
0x85 TIL the UK has the most breweries per capita in the world.