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

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ZpLpv TIL that William Brown, the Irish admiral who is called "father of the Argentine Navy", once spared Giuseppe Garibaldi, the future unifier of Italy, from execution as Brown saw the battle as dishonourable due his marines in acting on personal vendettas on some of the enemy troops.
ADpv7 TIL that in the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus and the Crucifixion, Jesus is shown as a donkey. The image is a Roman graffito scratched on a wall in Rome somewhere in the 2nd century, apparently to mock Christians.
0da6R TIL The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain was a Muslim ruled era of Spain, with the state name of Al-Andalus, lasting 800 years, whose state lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D.
9YYPQ TIL that in 2014, Assyriology specialist Dr Irving Finkel translated a cuneiform tablet that predates the Bible, which described a flood, much like the story of Noah. However, this story described the ark not as oblong, but round in shape.
4X646 TIL that Ursula The Sea Witch is inspired, in both appearance and demeanor, by drag legend and John Waters muse Divine.