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TIL round storm clouds that look like cotton balls or puffy batter being deep-fried are called mammatus clouds

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8OAL TIL that the word ‘dollar’ comes from the word 'thaler’ which comes from 'Joachimstaler’ - Joachimsthal was a silver-miner from Bohemia.
k784 TIL that roughly 1% of the German population is genetically immune to the HIV virus
xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
b9d0N TIL a human egg cell is visible to the naked eye – about the size of a period in standard-size font.
eYWJ TIL that Volkswagen won an Ig Nobel prize for “ for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.”