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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 Million Pounds
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TIL a Japanese train driver was so fearful of being punished over a 90 second delay he caused the train to derail killing himself and 107 others
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TIL Johnny Carson once jokingly stated “You know what’s disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper. There’s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.” resulting in people stocking up their toilet paper reserves resulting in an actual shortage in many areas.
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TIL Ayn Rand based her protagonists on kidnapper, murderer William Edward Hickman.
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TIL that human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot repair themselves.
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TIL that in 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate the most ice cream.