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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 Million Pounds

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9YmPm TIL during the entire 200-year history of British rule in India, there was almost no increase in per capita income. In fact, during the last half of the 19th century – the heyday of British intervention – income in India collapsed by half.
m1wBR TIL that there's a semi-aquatic wolf subspecies which has been documented swimming over seven miles between islands off the coast of Canada.
gNo7 TIL Santa Claus received 670 votes in the 2012 US presidential election
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xVMyg TIL that the male fig wasp mate with the females inside the fig, and before dieing inside the fruit, they chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.