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TIL In Japan, they have something called the “Happy Monday System” which aims to place as many state holidays as possible on Mondays in order to give those with a five-day work week more three day weekends

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N7dmP TIL in 1822 Europeans realized that storks migrate to Africa during winter because they found a stork that still had an arrow from a Central African tribe in it.
mxVQR TIL, the ancient dog breed Xoloitzcuintli, the dog from Coco, was nearly extinct by 1950 and was revived from a group 10 pure bred when an expedition scoured most of Mexico in search for them
M7NZ8 TIL of Assumable Mortgages: A buyer can take over the mortgage (and its locked-in interest rate if applicable)
ErrV TIL an iron pillar in Delhi(made of 98% wrought iron) has stood for at least 1600 years without rusting or corroding.
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.