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TIL the use of color Vantablack (the darkest shade of black) is exclusive to only one artist, Anish Kapoor. No other artist is supposed to use it to create art with it.

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jpGv TIL Colchicine, a Drug that’s been used safely since 550 AD to treat Gout, has gone from 10 cents a pill to $5 a pill. The FDA decided to offer a monopoly to anyone that would do safety testing. URL Pharma was granted a monopoly after a 1 week trial involving 185 patients and a $45 million fee.
lo4aB TIL Fidel Castro during his first 6 months as President of Cuba built 1000 KM of roads, spent $300 million on water and sanitation projects, constructed 800 houses every month, & set a cap for landholdings to 993 acres per owner.
Jx8 TIL while running for Sheriff in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head so that he could call the conservative, crew-cut wearing incumbent his “long haired opponent.”
DQ9Qe TIL that on December 1, 1974, two commercial passenger jets crashed - TWA #514 in Loudon County, VA and the other, Northwest Orient #6231 outside NYC, amid a giant post-Thanksgiving winter storm. A total of 95 people were killed.
DQL1v TIL that in 1963, a cat named Félicette became the first (and only) cat to be sent into space. Unlike other animals, she safely returned to Earth after helping gather crucial data for scientists.