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TIL that Rihanna's 'Umbrella' was originally written for Britney Spears, but she turned it down and Rihanna made it a hit

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e0onk TIL about this crow that broke his beak years ago in a collision with a car. His lady crow of many years has patiently fed him since.
PYynO TIL that giving children the names of Nutella, Manhattan, Prince William or Mini Cooper are illegal in France.
EgAX TIL Jackie Kennedy undertook a historical renovation of the White House that sought to replace the cheap furniture bought by the Trumans with pieces of WH historical furniture. She famously asked the Eisenhowers to give back the Washington era China they had taken home after leaving office.
nWVbP TIL about Confraternities in Nigeria, secretive student groups within higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since the 1980s. One estimate in 2002 was that 250 people had been killed in campus cult-related murders in the previous decade.
Lkon0 TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.