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A green cloud will only occur if the cloud is very deep, which generally only occurs in thunderstorm clouds. Those are the kind of storms that may produce hail and tornadoes.

TIL that there is a bladeless wind turbine that is smaller, lighters and more that 40% more cost effective than its bladed cousins. It sits on an oscillating base and uses vortexes to “trap” air to make electricity. Best of all, it is almost completely bird-safe.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of Farfarout, which is now the most distant known object in the Solar System, taking the record from Farout.

HOW Makeup was made in the 1950' https://t.co/T3DphtKaZt

Where the hell did Newton Go?⛲🐠 https://t.co/JgnbXY8pXO

For about a billion years in Earth’s history mountains stopped growing – this period is known to geologists as ‘the boring billion’. https://t.co/JaU5UHszjU

In 2017, a flight leaving Shanghai airport was delayed by five hours after an elderly passenger threw coins into their plane engine for ‘good luck’.

One of the theories about the origin of the name ‘Britain’ is that it comes from the Celtic ‘Pritanī’ meaning ‘land of the tattooed folk.’

Dante’s descendant is trying to clear his name of political crimes he was accused of 719 years ago.

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Research had shown that most instances of laughter happen not in response to humour, but as an effort to strengthen social bonds, acknowledge a superior’s authority or to exclude someone from a group. https://t.co/aLoVttas05

The muscle that moves the eye around (the lateral rectus) was labelled ‘amatoris' by early anatomists because lovers use it to flirt.

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I have also decided to stick with love… hate is too great a burden to bear. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

‘I have got a new friend, the finest in the world,’ wrote Lord Byron from Cambridge University in 1807, adding that ‘he should sit for a fellowship.’ He was referring to his pet bear.