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TIL A cloud typically weighs 1.1 million pounds

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Brv4d TIL that grasshoppers are the same insect as locusts. When forced into overcrowded areas with little food, they transform, becoming stronger, more aggressive, and swarm to eat anything in sight
RRa6 TIL that in 1914 Ford doubled workers’ wages voluntarily to reduce employee turnover and improve productivity.
Yx1d TIL Disney studios used a multiplane camera which moves a number of pieces of artwork painted on glass past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another to create a three-dimensional effect.
epBKk TIL that fish skin is used as wound dressing for severe burn injuries, leading to fast and very effective healing.
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.