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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 Million pounds

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R7p8w TIL that wet plate photography cannot pick up certain tattoos. This ended up erasing a large part of Māori culture from history.
7OXL TIL that executioners in the Middle Ages extracted fat from bodies and sold it to doctors. They claimed that ointments made from human fat could treat joint and bone ailments. In 2001, scientists discovered that human fat contains stem cells which can be converted into bone and cartilage.
rNGPW TIL that during WWII Boeing built a huge factory and camouflaged it by building a completely fake town on top of it so it would look like a suburban neighborhood from the air
4XPbg TIL that a cougar has over 80 different names including: mountain lion, panther and puma!
w8JJ TIL in 2004 Volvo introduced a concept car that was built for women without a hood and dent-resistant bumpers