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TIL that despite his years at the BBC, despite countless one-man broadcasts and dozens of panel discussions, no record of George Orwell’s voice survives

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aGAN TIL in the iconic painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”, the man carrying the flag is Lieutenant James Monroe, who would later become the United States’ fifth president.
166xO TIL in 1986 a Hotel in Singapore collapsed. Authorities were using heavy machinery to rescue survivors, a team of mainly Irish tunneling experts working on a new subway saw what was happening, and convinced authorities to let them tunnel for survivors instead. 17 people were rescued by them.
5VDQp TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").
8Q0X TIL that Ryan Gosling was offered, and rejected, the chance to become a member of Backstreet Boys
a89wJ TIL Post Malone had 3 separate songs certified diamond on 4/20/23 and also has more diamond certified songs than any artist in history