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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.

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Empo TIL there are only 2 companies in the world still making vinyl record lacquer…and one is an elderly Japanese man doing it in his garage!
wLpO6 TIL YouTuber Matthew Greer deepfaked Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner's faces on the Pogo video that remixed several Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
vPZmL TIL: that Otto Von Bismarck managed a posthumous snub of Wilhelm II, by having his own sarcophagus inscribed with the words, “A loyal German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I”.
p86de TIL Classical Greece wasn't filled with pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.
JYel4 TIL Pine Honey is actually made from the sugary poop of cicadas (and other bugs) that the bees eat, then vomit back up as delicious honey.