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TIL an average cloud weighs over 1 million pounds

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x68KB TIL of the concept of the unmanned store, which is basically like a giant vending machine designed to reduce shoplifting, construction overhead, and disease.
GAmPQ TIL that modern-day Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia, and this version of "Philadelphia" referred to the incestuous Ptolemy II Philadelphus who conquered the city
RGL7 TIL Giving yourself a hug can reduce physical pain, partially because it confuses the brain into thinking that the information from right side of the body is coming from the nervous system on the left side of the body
GnGj TIL that Jamal Woolard, the man who played The Notorious B.I.G in the film Notorious, was himself shot at the opening of Notorious.
KYVlQ TIL that the the current Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma, is a direct descendant of Moctezuma II, the last emperor of the Aztecs.