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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
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TIL it’s said that when Napoleon claimed to have the power to destroy the Catholic Church, a cardinal responded, “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”
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TIL the release of Halo 2 for the PC was delayed because one of the developers put a picture of his butt in the game.
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TIL that Rachel Carson, the scientist that discovered DDT's effect on wildlife, was seen as a threat to agricultural business. To discredit her, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture wrote a letter to President Eisenhower arguing that since she was unwed and attractive, she must have been a Communist.
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TIL That after The Sopranos episode in which ‘Ralph ie Cifaretto’ brutally murders his dancer girlfriend outside a club, more women began to flirt with the actor in real life (per actor Joe Pantoliano, “It was very telling…” :| ).
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TIL palaeontologists found components of red blood cells in a 46-million-year-old fossilised mosquito