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pYovQ TIL George II was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain (1683, Hanover), and the last to have personally led troops in battle (1743, Dettingen).
PYYGL Short answer: 60 miles wide, give or take
LkJQP TIL we know the exact date the Dalmatian language (one of the Romance languages) went extinct: June 10th, 1898. It is the day the last speaker of the language, Tuone Udaina, died in an explosion.
GY08j TIL that after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country code top-level domain for Montenegro officially changed in 2007 from .yu to .me.
4X6QN TIL the most difficult word to translate is 'ilunga'. It means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".