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TIL Anne Hathaway won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables with only 15 minutes of screentime across the entire film

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kOjbW TIL that clouds can weigh up to 1 million pounds. They can only float because the air under them is heavier. So the less dense clouds can float.
KO4KG TIL there are 96 bags of human waste left behind on the Moon by the six Apollo missions that landed there.
v1ag8 TIL: China creates so much synthetic diamonds that are identical to real diamonds that prices of diamonds are being driven down and De Beers has created a university to study how to identify "natural" and "man made" diamonds because no experts can tell the difference.
eax4 TIL that dying by crucifixion was considered so shameful in the ancient world that early Christians made up an alternate ending in which a man was mistakenly crucified in Jesus’ place.
54GD TIL that JFK purchased 1200 Cuban cigars hours before he ordered the Cuban Trade Embargo in 1962