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TIL The film version of George Orwell’s book Animal Farm was secretly funded by the CIA.

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P79L TIL the first person diagnosed with autism is still alive and living in Mississippi.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do
5ANn TIL not only can Bamboo be made into a textile, it’s also antimicrobial
Jmvl TIL Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for the nuclear weapons. To emphasize the monster’s relationship with the atomic bomb, its skin texture was inspired by the keloid scars seen on survivors in Hiroshima.
WkQ4 TIL “pie à la mode” was named by a professor who went around to restaurants ordering it by that name