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TIL in the French version of Animal Farm by George Orwell “Napoleon” the pig is often changed to “Caesar”. This is because it’s illegal to name a pig Napoleon in France

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rRKLx TIL the Burke & Wills expedition of 1860, Australia’s own Lewis & Clarke. Burke, Wills and 17 others set off to cross Australia South-North, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, a 3250km journey one way. Both men died. Only one, an Irish soldier named John King completed the journey back.
xVbQg TIL Carlos Hathcock, an American sniper during the Vietnam war crawled over 1,500 yards to shoot PAVN General. It took him 4 days and 3 nights inch by inch. He fired a single shot killing the General and crawled back undetected.
6ENA7 TIL Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979.
W7dwd TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
VxPB TIL that James Cromwell had such a significant experience playing farmer Hoggett in the 1995 film Babe that he became an ethical vegan