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TIL that a single ton of paper towels takes 17 whole trees and 20,000 gallons of water to make.

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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.
ADWkx TIL the French Foreign Minister was shot dead in 1934 when a revolutionary opened fire. It wasn't revealed until 1974 that the revolutionary missed and the Minister was really killed by a police officer aiming for the revolutionary.
nWxeW TIL the US Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by Jehovah's Witnesses in 1940 that public schools could compel students to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance regardless of religious objections. The ruling was overturned in 1943.
kLo7 TIL Olympic bike racing involves biking as slowly as possible
ReO4 TIL that during production of the film “Snakes on a Plane” the name was changed to “Pacific Air Flight 121”. Samuel L. Jackson, the lead character, successfully requested the title be changed back, saying, “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.”