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TIL that clouds weigh at about 500,000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds (about 551 tons). And the reason why it floats is because the air beneath it is heavier than it is.

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XE05X TIL that Henry VIII of England agreed to marry Anne of Cleves after seeing a portrait that he commissioned of her. After meeting in person, Henry realized she wasn't as attractive as the painting suggested and annulled the marriage. The portrait is now displayed in the Louvre.
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
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J4g4 TIL A professinal linguist in Native American languages was asked to invent Klingon for Star Trek. He speaks Klingon, but notes that others have attained greater fluency
R7xA7 TIL about the giant poop monument of Ponta Grossa, Brazil