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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 Million pounds
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TIL Google intends to scan all known existing 130 million books, totaling 4 billion digital pages and 2 trillion words and plans to have it finished by the end of the decade.
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TIL that in Super Mario RPG, there’s an item found under Peach’s bed called called Toadstool’s ???, which she scolds you for finding. In Japan, it’s called XXX and is implied to be a sex toy
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TIL about Unit 731, a Japanese complex that during WW2 performed lethal biological and chemical experiments to over 3000 people, carrying out some of the most notorious war crimes in Japanese history.
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TIL it took 3 grips to restrain Sean Connery from killing the Camera Man on the set of Zardoz (1974) after the Camera man accidentally opened the camera and exposed a days worth of film. That day's filming involved Connery in heavy makeup, which he hated, so he was furious to have to film it again
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TIL of Joe Arridy, a mentally ill man wrongfully sentenced to death in the 1930's. While on death row, he played with toy trains, requested ice cream for his last meal and, while being taken to the gas chamber, smiled and told the warden, "No no, Joe won't die"