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TIL Vantablack is the blackest black absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum

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0wb5N TIL there are 22 Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands which then contain 7 exclaves of the Netherlands within them.
VMJ64 TIL the author of The Witcher sold the rights to his works to CD Projekt Red for a lump sum of $9,350, as he didn’t think the franchise would be successful. After the video game series became a success, he sued for $16.1 million.
88vG TIL that Dickens’ secular vision of Christmas resulted in many of the traditions that are employed today, including popularizing the phrase, “Merry Christmas.”
E1bn0 TIL the first statue of a black person in Bristol, UK was erected in 1987 and is of the playwright and poet Alfred Fagon
gOKW TIL the Catholic Church used to castrate boys who accused priests of sexual abuse, as recently as the 1950’s