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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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Y9ad TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
wLk5o TIL that the software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame
yJo8 TIL that Steve Jobs almost named the iMac Macman. This would have meant we would now be using Podmans, Padmans, and Phonemans.
OGZL1 TIL people with Down Syndrome are just as likely to have depression as people without Down Syndrome if not more likely
WkKgd TIL an epidemic in 1872 affecting horses was a key moment in the animal rights movement as the founder of the ASPCA would stand in the street to block horse-drawn trolleys to insist that sick horses be returned to the stables instead of being worked to death