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TIL George Orwell provided the British state with a list of possible communists/subversives before he died in 1949

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EgD4p TIL the US Capitol granite is so radioactive it would not pass a safety check if it were a nuclear power plant
mxgpy TIL a single worksheet on Microsoft Excel contains 16,384 rows and 1,048,576 columns, for a total of 17,179,869,184 cells.
X0gDE TIL over one million mummified animals have been found in Egypt. (Mostly cats, of course.)
xGdw TIL of Miniatur Wunderland, the largest, most complex and most expensive model train set in the world.
jNL7j TIL President John Tyler had 8 children with his wife Letitia. She died of a stroke in the White House at age 52. After Letitia’s death his niece served as First Lady until he married Julia who was 30 years younger and had 7 children. Tyler’s 15 kids are the most of any U.S. President.