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TIL Vantablack isn't a color but a surface application of nanotubes (Vertically Aligned NanoTube Array) that trap/move photons until they convert to heat - thus creating the "black" color through the absence of light

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JyGV TIL every year, Finland increases in surface area by about 7 square kilometers per year because it is rebounding from the weight of ice age glaciers and rising out of the sea.
BrEbL TIL that the Great Sphinx of Giza is so old that its first restoration dates to 1400 BC, when it was already a thousand years old
WkJGd TIL that in 2001 the daughter of a 70yr old Japanese man saved him from choking on a mochi rice cake by sucking it out with a vacuum cleaner.
WkKnd TIL Pineapples are multiple fruits.
a899M TIL that Gabe Newell, president of the video game company Valve which created steam, owns Inkfish, an ocean-exploration research organisation which currently holds the records for the deepest crewed dives in all five oceans with their deep-submergence vehicle Limiting Factor