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TIL: Georgia State Law is copyrighted. You can be sued for publishing it.

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MJlV TIL Stephen King threw away his original drafts of “Carrie” because he couldn’t write from a woman’s perspective. His wife retrieved them and launched his career.
R7law TIL The Lone Ranger was so named because the character is the sole survivor of a group of six Texas Rangers.
8GZZ TIL of an Internet Mystery involving a Cicada which has never been solved.
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.
wK8o TIL experts rank Starbucks coffee behind Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Tim Hortons in a blind tasting, saying “This is so bad. It’s the antithesis of coffee.”