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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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ne0Jo Today I learned the BBC runs a pidgin English news service.
epmeg TIL that William J. Sharkey, a NYC politician, was convicted of murder in 1873 but soon escaped from The Tombs (a notorious Manhattan prison) by disguising himself as a female visitor. He escaped to Cuba and was never apprehended.
dYN9 TIL it snowed 8 inches on the eve of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. To clear Pennsylvania Avenue, an army of men worked all night, using flame-throwers.
l7p9V TIL about The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado. It was built in 1883 as a toll way and operated as such until the 1920s when it was rebuilt. Legend has it that an early traveler was so overcome by vertigo on the steep, winding road that he said he would never travel it again even for a million $.
5Ykvn TIL that in 2016, Mozart CDs outsold Beyonce, Drake, and Adele CDs.