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TIL George Orwell died the year after “1984” was published

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e0kMJ TIL Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a love letter to the dash, a form of punctuation he felt was unfairly demonized.
GLkG TIL John Matuszak known as Sloth from “The Goonies” was a #1 Overall Pick in the NFL Draft and won 2 Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders.
0Xlj TIL that on December 6, 2012, Journey became the first video game in history to be nominated for a Grammy Award
Gwd5 TIL Artificial grass got the name “AstroTurf” because the first professional team to play on it was the Houston Astros.
oB057 TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who in 1960 prevented nuclear war when NORAID misidentified the rising moon as 1000 Soviet Nuclear missiles, by asking where Khrushchev was