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TIL Room 101, the torture chamber in “1984”, was named after a room where Orwell was forced to endure tedious meetings.

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nNx7 TIL that an English football team was about to hold a one minute silence for the passing of their oldest fan, which was abruptly ended when…….he walked on to the field
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