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TIL an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds

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4Xv7w TIL an Aztec nobleman wrote about a Samurai who visited America and got into a fight with the Spanish over presents.
1OAr TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country’s resources.
9YxA6 TIL James Howard. WW2 P-51 Mustang fighter pilot who defended his bombers, alone, against 30 Luftwaffe planes, even diving on them when he'd run out of ammunition, until they were driven away.
wbXW TIL There’s no word for a group of Koalas because they are solitary animals
JPov TIL that Iron Man is either powered by Open Source software or made of Lego. (according to this eagle eyed programmer)