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TIL the average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.

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neDEb TIL an American soldier, John R. McKinney, was taking a nap when a hundred Japanese soldiers launched a sneak attack on his position. He single-handedly thwarted the assault, killing 40 of them before the rest withdrew - using only his M1 Garand.
l7l01 TIL Until 2015 Florida had a prohibition era law on the books that prohibited the sale of beer and other malt liquors to containers that held either 32 ounces or fewer or 128 ounces or more. Any container between those, such as the 64 ounce growlers used by craft brewers, was banned.
JYDdv TIL about The Poseidon, or Status-6 Multipurpose System, which is a Russian nuclear-powered underwater drone capable of creating half-kilometer tall tsunamis with a 200 megaton nuclear blast. The Russian Navy has already ordered the construction of 30 such devices.
VMKNm TIL that Tchaikovsky, who was gay, signed off a letter to his brother Modest, who was also gay, as "Your devoted and loving sister, Petrolina"
DQmKe TIL in 910, Hungarian horse archers defeated a much larger German army by pretending to retreat for 12 hours, luring them into a trap, then annihilating them with hidden reserves.