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TIL that while George Orwell's Room 101 has become a euphemism for torture, the other great anti-totalitarian novel of the 1940ies, Darkness At Noon (1940), had its protagonist trapped in cell... 404.

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nePyo TIL that laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times!
DQwlD TIL that theres an extreme sport in India called the wall/well of death. In this sport, they will drive their cars and bikes along the sides/walls of a large concrete cylindrical structure. In a circle while also taking tips from the crows at the top of the cylinder.
ANG7d TIL Bill Nye, the Science Guy, holds a patent for improved point shoes to better support dancers’ feet
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.
neQrY TIL whenever Leslie Nielsen would do interviews to promote his movies he would bring a device that made fart noises to prank the interviewer