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TIL Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a meeting room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings.

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KYBra TIL The highest single game total in worldwide organized basketball history, irrespective of gender, age or competition level, is 272 points, scored by a 13-year-old boy named Mats Wermelin of Sweden. He recorded every single point in his team's 272–0 win.
MeZja TIL: In 2006 a lost Christian gospel was translated and read for the first time in over 1500 years. In The Gospel of Judas, Jesus says the Abrahamic God is an evil lesser God named Saklas that created humanity, but that there is a higher God named Barbelo that he is the Son of.
YpErd TIL Disney announced a live action Jungle Cruise movie in 2011 that was going to star Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, which never happened.
OAjR TIL there was once a teenage contestant thrown out of the 2012 National Scrabble Championships because he was found to be concealing two blank tiles.
epMk4 TIL Ambergris is a waxy substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales, with a "fecal, marine" odour, but it acquires a sweet, earthy scent as it ages, hence highly valued in making fragrances. It's also very expensive, like 127kg (280 pound) of it found in Yemen valued at US$1.5 million