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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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6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
QJD4M TIL the continent Europe only covers about 2% of the total Earth's surface.
X0GOj TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower
1aEL4 TIL George Orwell's manuscript of "Animal Farm" was almost destroyed when a German bomb hit his London home OTD in 1944. He spent hours sifting through the rubble to find the pages intact.
PVMw TIL house flies land on ceilings by approaching at a 45° and then cartwheeling into the landing.