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Today I learned: the average cloud weighs 600 tonnes, and the sun heats up the air causing it to rise and push up the clouds keeping them high in the sky

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JY8Y4 TIL That Pres. Bush was almost assassinated in 2005 after Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live RGD-5 hand grenade wrapped in a handkerchief at him. Miraculously it failed to detonate because the handkerchief remained around the grenade preventing the striker lever from releasing
gMXL9 TIL that if a tail shed by a lizard as a decoy was not eaten by the chasing predator (and the lizard gets away too) the lizard would return to eat its own tail. Turns out the shed tail is a great source of fat to regain the energy lost in its getaway.
e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
w6OP TIL that when Pocahontas married John Rolfe, the uproar in British court had nothing to do with race – it was because a princess had married a commoner.
OQmg TIL the song “Stairway to Heaven” has more radio air time than the amount of time that is has been a song. (It was released in 1971)