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TIL that the 1956 film adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 was funded by the CIA, and so contains an alternate ending where Winston and Julia remain rebellious against the party and are shot for it.

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1NA8 TIL Marcia, George Lucas’s ex-wife, got an Oscar for her editing and was behind some of the better ideas of Star Wars. She got very little credit after the divorce.
QJrNp TIL of the "Pioneering Spirit", the world's largest ship (by gross tonnage)
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
X01dX TIL: That in a certain type of flame cutting, Oxyfuel, you are essentially just rusting through the metal EXTREMELY quickly
dVEQ TIL There was a book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank