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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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jNRxR TIL that in the 50s a frenchman was both fined and given a gold medal for the unintentional killing of an estimated 90% of the rabbits in France, 99% in Britain and many more across western Europe
grxmW TIL Canada and the U.S. Celebrate Labour Day on the same date!
ANMZB TIL that before he wrote The Music Man in 1957, Meredith Willson wrote It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas for Perry Como six years prior
QNneM TIL about the Robertson family who tried to sail around the world in 1970s. They were shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after orcas bashed their boat yet the family survived for 38 days on a dinghy before being rescued.
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