Per2+TIL

Please post TIL statements relative to George Orwell and/or his novel 1984.

[|TIL "Orwellian" is a term used to refer to anything that is totalitarian, thanks to his book //1984 (Parker Geralds)//] [|TIL that Orwell named his adopted son after one of his ancestors who's name was Richard Horatio Blair] (Zach Kalik) [|TIL that the abbreviation for the word "love" as "luv" orginated from 1984 by Orwell] (Priya M.) [|TIL George Orwell wrote 1984 because of the rise of totalitarian states in Europe.] (Olivia) [|TIL that George Orwell originaly set the novel in 1980 latter shifting the date to 1984] (Varunraj Baskaran) [|TIL that Orwell's 1984 was almost never written because Orwell came close to drowning in a whirlpool after a boating accident.] (Anusha P.) TIL that Orwell had a job as a clerk of a secondhand bookstore and his experience there ruined his love for books. (atsi shah) [|TIL that George Orwell was born in Motihari,Inida] [|TIL that people still fear the tech in 1984 like the gov spying on its citizens] (Maria Capetta) TIL that Orwell raced to finish 1984 because he was so close to death. (Taylor Pestorius) [|TIL that George Orwell believed that soon the world will be under one leader.] (Emily Howarth) [|TIL that 1984's sales spiked because of the NSA's spying scandal] (Joseph D'Addesa) [|TIL that 1984 has inspired songs by Coldplay, Muse, Radiohead, and more.] (Grace Chen) [|TIL that George Orwell's childhood illness heavily set the tone in his novel 1984] (Jacob Tyles) [|TIL George Orwell did not attend a university and instead joined the Imperial Police Force.] of Bruma (Perry Huang) TIL that George Orwell is the penname of a man named Eric Arthur Blair (Esther Han) [|TIL that George Orwell was taught by Aldous Huxley in a school called Eton in England]. (Susmita Ghose) [|TIL that the Ministry of Love is a real thing because in most states, the court can order the involuntary hospitalization of an individual for emergency psychiatric screening if the person is anticipated to cause harm to him/herself or others while there does not exist an objective mode of anticipation.] (David Tsai) TIL George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War (Nick Zienkiewicz) [|TIL that George Orwell (actually Eric Blair) spent a great deal of time as a policeman doing forensics and surveillance in Burma and became familiar with police states] (Tess Jacobson) [|TIL George Orwell picked his pen name because George was the patron saint of England and Orwell is the named of a river he liked] (Kirsten Dahl) [|TIL that the Thought Police were actually based on the Soviet NKVD] (Matt Schueler) TIL that one fan theory about 1984 is that only Great Britain is totalitarian and that what the book says about the rest of the world isn't true (Nicole)