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TIL that Maltese is derived from a form of Sicilian Arabic.

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XRor TIL white rice raises blood sugar more than sugary drinks
4kpmN TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke.
wLBoM TIL: All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White due to radiation from the sun.
wL8xP TIL if engulfed in flames in a forest fire, some fire trucks can go into burnover mode when a sprinkler system keeps watering the truck (including each tyre) while the fire fighters hide behind heat shields.
awaOA TIL Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime mister of indipendentCongo was assassinated by British MI6 and American CIA, in an effort to preserve Congo's mineral resources as a western asset.