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TIL George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and 'Animal Farm’ have together sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

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8amRX TIL that, when measuring things for cooking, the volume of a tablespoon is different in the US, the UK and Australia.
4k6NX TIL of John R. Baylor the self-proclaimed 'governor' of Arizona who was a Confederate Colonel whose self-appointment was later approved by Jefferson Davis. Baylor gave orders to exterminate the indigenous Apache and when Davis got wind of it he rescinded the orders as well as Baylor's governorship.
ADYyg TIL after surviving the plane crash that killed three of his bandmates, Artimus Plyle (the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd) was shot in the shoulder by a farmer as he stumbled though a field with a group of survivors.
NkRe TIL Weird Al would take his dates to see The Naked Gun (in which he had a cameo), while even wearing the same Hawaiian shirt he wore in the film, to see them “flip out”
7rekp TIL the first weight-loss surgery was to the king of Leon, Spain during the 10th century. His morbid obesity made him lose the throne so his grandmother escorted him to Cordoba where a doctor sewed his lips shut, his food only coming from a straw. He lost half his weight and reclaimed the throne.