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TIL - Water was probably delivered to Earth from space

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rN7Ye TIL The Goldilocks Principle allowing Earth to sustain life because of its position in the solar system, and the slightest change would be detrimental to its survival.
nelMo TIL that Sneha Anne Philip is officially considered to be one of the victims of 9/11. Being a doctor who lived nearby, it's believed that she died trying to help the injured at Ground Zero. There's just one problem: no-one saw her there. Or, indeed, anywhere at all. She went missing on 9/10.
4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.
8elAX TIL that in Germany Vick's VapoRub is sold under the name Wick VapoRub because "Vick's", when pronounced in German, sounds too similar to the vulgar word fick.
6VlZ TIL that the twenty two wealthiest women in the world ALL inherited their wealth, from either a father or a husband.