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TIL that George Orwell was very into pranks growing up. Amongst his more malicious, was to create an advertisement which implied his college tutor John Crace was a pederast.

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e6Kk TIL: A “Blue Moon” does Not refer to the second full moon of a month, but the fourth full moon of a season. The common misconception became popular in the 1940s.
r5Z0 TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.
Pb9J TIL It takes over 1,000 years in man hours to construct a single Virginia class nuclear submarine
XQbX TIL that due to the process of blending together beef from multiple delivery batches, a McDonald’s burger patty “can be made up of the meat from more than 100 cattle”
W7RwL TIL in 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack and died mid-race. His body somehow remained on the horse and crossed the finish line in first place. He had never won a race before in his life.