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You better sit down for this.
There are way more than four states of matter (many exotic but not all).
Even weirder, the distinction between liquid and gas disappears under easily achievable conditions. Rather than being absolutely separate states, they exist on a continuum. We actually exploit this in the process of manufacturing decaffeinated coffee.
Wow. This needs to be on YouTube. Maybe it is and I just slept through it.
Clouds behave like a liquid