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TIL that George Orwell fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and wrote a book about it: Homage to Catalonia

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Bx0W TIL there is an island the size of Manhattan in the Bay of Bengal whose inhabitants have had almost no contact with the outside world. It may be the last such place on earth.
9g5G TIL that the inventor of the first ever video game also helped to invent the first nuclear bomb.
mx1bo TIL That a "Union Station" is a station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies.
Wkw1N TIL that Six Flags Amusement Park is named that way because of the 6 different flags that have governed over the state of Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. The first Six Flags park was Six Flags Over Texas.
jEvp TIL that Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptists Church was a life-long Democrat, running for office repeatedly and serving as a delegate for Al Gore in the 1988 Democrat presidential primary.