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TIL Cumulus cloud weighs as much as 2.2 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms)

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enj4 TIL Canada has the highest Cannabis use in the world.
awoMo TIL that the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was first used to describe the lands controlled by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and not the British Empire as is commonly thought.
EgYr0 TIL The 1st woman to win a Nobel prize in Medicine was Czech born Gerty Cori. Without much formal education, she took 8 years of Latin, 5 years of chemistry and 5 years of math IN ONE YEAR. She is the 1st woman without the last name Curie to win a Nobel Prize.
GALB4 TIL: that in Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they get lonely.
R7xX1 TIL during the 18th and 19th centuries, most military deaths were caused by poor sanitation, poor diet and diseases. The 1871 Franco-Prussian War would be the first war with primarily combat related fatalities.