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TIL that scientists have figured out a way to weigh clouds. Determining the cloud's approximate size is the first step. Clouds that are average in size weigh just about 1.1 million pounds.

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A7ko TIL Inventor of James Bond and all around bad ass ex-spy, Ian Fleming, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, later adapted to screen by fellow ex-bad ass spy, Roald Dahl. Both served in the same British intelligence agency.
6E88X TIL about The Gospel of Wealth, an 1889 article by Andrew Carnegie that became a guiding philosophy for philanthropy as a moral obligation for the wealthy to spend their fortunes helping others that became a trend and expected of the very successful. He said: "He who dies rich, dies disgraced."
awRpM TIL: You’re not allowed to visit the isle of Komodo if you’re on your period as it can attract dragons
vvj TIL That There is a ight Bulb That Has Been in near-continuous use for over 110 Years, only time it was switched off was when it had to be moved and was given a police escort when it was switched between the old fire station and a new one in 1976.
gr9xA TIL that Red Sonja was the First Marvel Movie (using standards that the majority would agree on)