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TIL George Orwell took his pseudonym name from the River Orwell in Suffolk in UK

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Wk9DA TIL in 2008, Anthony Curcio robbed a Brinks armoured car outside of a Bank of America branch, escaped across a hand-dredged creek behind the bank in an inner tube on a pulley system while 15-20 decoys he had hired dressed exactly the same as him covered his escape.
m1a4R TIL Glen Hansard dated a singer named Markéta Irglová who he “discovered” and managed since she was 15 and he was 33. Started dating at 18 and 36. He later said “"I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid"
A4R4 TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.
78EX TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
EwJx TIL that in 1974, Ian Ball attempted to kidnap Princess Anne. After shooting her bodyguard, chauffeur and a bystander, he asked her to get out of the car, to which she responded “Not bloody likely”