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TIL The richest 8 people have more wealth than half of the world’s population.

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m1LRE TIL that the Richter Window is the stained glass window in the south transept of the Cologne Cathedral. It's made of 11.263 glass squares -each 9.6×9.6cm/3.78×3.78in- in 72 different colors and covers a surface of 106m²/1141ft².
E1xBX 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
GAkK5 TIL what would happen if you were born blind then got vision later in life.
j6Vpv TIL Of Tirpitz, who was a ship pig in WW1. Following the German loss at the Battle of the Falkland Islands the SMS Dresden was scuttled but Tirpitz escaped, was rescued by the British Navy, and was adopted by the HMS Glasgow.
mxp5E TIL that Oville Wright, who co-invented the airplane, lived til 1948. So he made the first working airplane in 1903 and say Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier just 43 years later.