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TIL The peach crayon color used to be called Flesh until 1962

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v1A78 TIL the Maltese language is descended from the time of Muslim Arab control over Malta a millennium ago. The Arab language survived Christian reconquest, but disconnected from the Arab world, absorbed Italian/Sicilian/English vocabulary, evolving into Maltese today. It is written with Latin script.
8ex6a TIL a flashback scene in the cult favourite sci-fi horror Event Horizon was much longer, used pornstars as the cast, would be illegal to shoot today, was stripped from the movie by the producers and is considered lost because it was not archived for later use in a Director's Cut
0YlA TIL Sean Bean is tied with Bella Lugosi for most deaths per screen appearance, dying in 32% of his films.
wAQJ TIL that when Nadia Comaneci achieved the first perfect 10.00 score in gymnastics, the scoreboard wasn’t even capable of showing 2 digits. Instead it showed 1.00
QNag6 TIL the Water integrator in the USSR, invented in 1936, used water levels in various chambers to solve inhomogeneous differential equations