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

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P1PwV TIL that the number of possible QR codes is larger than the number of atoms in the universe.
5YN5Q TIL Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the film lead role as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", but producers instead cast Audrey Hepburn because they feared Monroe would complicate the production. Capote later said the producers "double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey".
ZNAa TIL some people live in “residential airparks”, neighborhoods surrounded by a runway where garages are replaced by aircraft hangers and people fly from place to place instead of driving.
p8XDQ TIL during the French Restoration, Colonel Barbier-Dufai and Captain Raoul de Vere dueled over an insult to the latter's cockade. After de Vere was disarmed four times they decided to tie their left arms together and stab each other to death with daggers in the back of a carriage. De Vere lost again
W7g09 TIL only about 200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people.