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TIL That there is a dutch artist who artificially makes real clouds to photograph them (Pictures and Explanation inside)

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gMQQ9 TIL the 1958 horror movie "The Blob" had a bizarrely ridiculous but awesome theme song.
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.
QJDyd TIL People with sensitive noses are capable of smelling when it's about to rain due to atmospheric chemicals reacting and creating ozone, which has a pungent, sweet smell.
OgoX TIL Teddy Roosevelt was shot prior to giving a speech. Noticing it missed his lung since he wasn’t coughing up blood, he proceeded to give a ninety minute speech
R57ya TIL of the United States Camel Corps, a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. The Civil War interfered with the experiment and it was eventually abandoned; the animals were sold at auction.