› added 4 years ago

238

TIL that 1984 by George Orwell was banned in the USSR for being Anti-Communist, but also banned in the USA for being Pro-Communist.

Read more world.edu

via reddit.com

V9AD TIL: in 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.
j6kOR TIL that during the fall of Saigon in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used the song White Christmas as a secret signal to begin evacuations before the city fell.
D18De TIL there's a sport called Octopush. It's a game of hockey, but held underwater.
YpdLG TIL Brian Wecht, member of comedy band "Ninja sex party" started a kid friendly band called "go banana go"
69MoJ TIL Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet who had multiple personalities and different biographies, for example, he would sometimes claim to be a man called Ricardo Reis born in the city of Porto (while the real Pessoa was born in Lisbon).