Per8+TIL

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

[|TIL Orwell lived on a remote island in the Inner Hebrides, called Jura, for several years.] (Kelsey Coulter)

//[|TIL that Blair was born in Bengal, India during the height of the British Imperial rule and that Blair only saw his father once. (Robbie Sandhu)]//

[|TIL that Orwell tried to get arrested on Christmas, but failed.] (Devin Soni)

[|TIL George Orwell had to make ends meet, so he took a job as a dishwasher (Ghanash Vigneswaran)]  TIL The commonly known Apple for Macinstosh was created in the year 1984 and in opening statements they contrasted the new age of technology they would be providing in contrast to the novel //1984.// (Jean Thompson)

[|TIL the name George Orwell was a pen name.] (Danielle Staffin)

[|TIL George Orwell wrote a letter to Noel Willmett three years before writing 1984 in which he explained his reasons for writing this novel] (Monica Mooney)

TIL that George Orwell made a voodoo doll of a boy he did not like, and when the boy got hurt, he dropped it. He also tried with by curing a women of obesity, and killing a rat. (Evanna Wang)

[|TIL George Orwell spent his first living year in India with his family, which consisted of his mother, father and older sister.] (Charlene Liu)

[|TIL Orwell worked as an Imperial Policeman in Burma.] (Ricson Cheng).

[|TIL George Orwell's first word was "beastly".] (Randi Steiner)

[|TIL George Orwell observed the effects of classism early on when he, a scholarship student, was treated differently from wealthy students at his primary school St. Cyprian's.] (James Lin)

[|TIL that apart from writing novels,George Orwell also wrote 17 poems and also a play] (Craig Thorogood)

[|TIL that "1984" is also written as a complete opera] (Emily Willoughby)

[|TIL that George Orwell attended Eton from age 14-17 and was in a French class taught by none other than Aldous Huxley who would go on to write Brave New World.] (Adam Giurlando)

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[|TIL that Orwell was strongly against dictatorial control](melissa yang)

[|TIL that mid way though writing 1984, Orwell almost drowned in a whirlpool.] (Jess Debski)  [|TIL George and I have something in common] (Jen Chu)  TIL Some Dutch artists decorated security cameras with party hats to celebrate Orwell's 110th birthday (Nicole Baxter-Green)  [|TIL George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair] (Alex Wahl) 