› added 8 months ago

60

TIL that Normal white clouds we see every day weigh about 500,000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds!

Read more sciencefocus.com

via reddit.com

R7Gy7 TIL George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff's uniform and walking out of the courthouse
nWnVd TIL that in 1999 a Qantas 747 "crashed" on landing and then Qantas paid a huge amount of money to repair the plane so it wouldn't be reported as a hull loss accident.
0wJNA TIL that according to Welsh legends fairies used to ride corgis into battle
wnJW TIL That despite marijuana being legal in Colorado, employers have increased drug testing of employees
4Xbea TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.