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TIL that a cumulus cloud weighs an estimated 1.1 million pounds, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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79xO TIL a man walked into a Walmart wearing an employee vest, told a cashier that they were wanted in the office, helped the remaining customer in line, emptied the cash register, then walked right out.
9wL8p TIL that the first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets
X0ONP TIL France has 12 time zones. This is more than any other country.
gM4jA TIL that the Bible is not only the best selling book of all time, but it is also the most shoplifted one.
eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”