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TIL that 15 years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy had already written and published a poem about 1984

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nem99 TIL that dogs were originally listed as non-self-aware, due to failing the "mirror test". However, since dogs are not visually oriented, a new test, "sniff test of self recognition" was developed, and shows significant evidence of self-awareness in dogs.
R5pK7 TIL in his old age Marlon Brando spent hours in AOL chatrooms having political arguments with strangers. His account was often banned for telling people to "fuck off".
Xv18 TIL that “New Car Smell” is actually a dangerous cocktail of hundreds of toxic chemicals
ADNrl TIL Homer Simpson is an honourary citizen of Winnipeg
5dbn TIL that Immanuel Kant, one of the most influential philosophers in history, never traveled more than a few miles outside his home city of Königsberg in his 79 years of life.