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

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Ll40 TIL despite having only approximately 16 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor in 1991.
1BNO TIL a male tiger almost always win in a fight against a male lion because it is bigger, has longer fangs, better muscle density, more agile, more powerful bite force and can stand on its powerful hindlegs allowing for both-paws swipe while the lion cannot.
bQ7j TIL that the Bible specifically forbids Christians from filing civil lawsuits against one another, requiring that they pursue arbitration with a Christian authority.
LQxW0 TIL landscape was sacred for Hittites: "No one violates a boundary or road, for boundaries are the knees of the Storm-god and a road is his chest. If someone violates a boundary, he makes the Storm-god weary in his knees, if someone violates a road, he makes the Storm-god weary in his chest."
BrMyD TIL that the most accurate simulation of the human brain ever has been carried out, but a single second’s worth of brain activity took one of the world’s largest supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.