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TIL in 1944, George Orwell's first draft of Animal Farm was almost destroyed in a German V-1 rocket attack. He luckily found the manuscript in the rubble of his house.

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Wkj0d TIL about SS Baychimo, a Swedish built 1,322 ton cargo steam-ship that was left abandoned by its crew in 1931 due to fear of sinking. Surprisingly, Baychimo did not sink, but instead drifted around as a ghost ship for nearly 40 years without a crew, she was last seen in 1969.
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