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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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PnPL TIL that Smarties candies (“Rockets” in Canada) were originally made with re-purposed gun powder tablet machines from WWII.
MegNa TIL that Six Flags New Orleans never recovered from the damage of Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Today, it sits abandoned for its 13th year.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
mx88v TIL that in 2014 Minister Charles R. Moore publicly committed suicide through self-immolation in Grand Saline, Texas in order protest the county's long history of racial discrimination. Local police chief responded by saying that racism is "not a problem at all here."
ADlw4 TIL that during a prohibition new years eve party --Just after midnight on January 1, 1923, federal agents burst into the Chase Hotel’s posh Palm Room for a whiskey raid. Furious party-goers began pummeling the officers --All the while the orchestra kept playing in an effort to drown out the noise.