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TIL that a cloud weighs around a million tonnes

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Lkb99 TIL ABBA's tour costumes were designed by Owe Sandström with close consultation/influence from the band, and national costumes (Japanese, Latin American) were inspirations. ABBA had duplicates of each outfit and the backing musicians and singers had costumes, so a few hundred outfits went on tour
LkK6Q TIL right before Rachel Dolezal was outed as white, she was a slated to testify as a supporting witness against her brother, Joshua Dolezal; who allegedly molested her and an unnamed minor on several occasions.
nerZ9 TIL about Utsuro-Buno, a Japanese legend about an unknown object washing ashore in Hitachi in1803. Inside there was a young woman who spoke an unknown language and who was carrying a small box which she didn't let anyone touch.
ZaQo TIL that in 1990 the Galileo Spacecraft, in an experiment designed by Carl Sagen, passed by Earth to see if life could be detected from space. The answer? Barely, but yes.
LvMZ TIL of a man who suffered a stroke and, due to brain damage, lost the ability to feel sad