Per4+TIL

[|TIL that the iconic 1984 Apple ad was based on Orwell's novel] (Anish)

[|TIL that the famed game Half Life 2 begins with elements very similar to those in 1984] (Anish)

[|TIL: Orwell wrote 1984 in an isolated farmhouse and got really sick during his writing] (Emily C)

TIL: [|There is no known surviving recording of Orwell's voice, even though he worked at BBC for many years] (Dennis)

[|TIL Orwell chose his pen name "Orwell" because it was the name of a river he liked.] (Matt)

[|TIL that Orwell admitted to having imaginary friends to fill his lonely childhood, which is also one of his motivations behind writing.] (Margot Pitney)

[|TIL that George Orwell was married to Sonia Brownell at University College Hospital in October 1849, and died in January 1850, still in that same hospital.] (Ananya)

[|TIL that George Orwell was born with the name Eric Arthur Blair] (Becky Cardinali)

TIL that while George Orwell was in Burma he acquired tattoos on his knuckles and grew his famous mustache(Lyndsey Stewart)

TIL Orwell has a British prize named after him, given to an author and a journalist each year for outstanding political writing. (Michelle)

TIL Orwell saw his father once over a three month visit (Emily Yao)

[|TIL that in April 1932 Orwell was a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a prep school for boys, in London.](Anjali Wadhwa)

[|TIL that George Orwell's father always said "NO".] (Rachel Staffin)

[|TIL that, in school, Orwell took a french class taught by Aldous Huxley] (Michael Usewick)

[|TIL that Orwell's tattoos were of several bright blue spots, one on each knuckle] (Sukhmann Aneja)

[|TIL that George Orwell almost drowned in a whirlpool before completing //1984//] (Brooke Lockwood)

TIL On Orwell's birthday someone decorated security cameras with party hats (Rachel B-G)

TIL George Orwell fought in the Spanish War (Molly Mahoney)

[|TIL I learned who George Orwell based some of his 1984 characters off of] (Joy Mariconda)