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TIL that particularly destructive named hurricanes will have their names removed from recurring lists for naming storms

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9Y5om TIL that Maltese is derived from a form of Sicilian Arabic.
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kJkkg TIL, Judith Love Cohen,mother of Jack Black,was part of the team that created the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.She was working on problems with schematics on the day she went into labor,called her boss to let him know she had fixed the problem, and then delivered Jack.
yQNDa TIL In the mid-1970s, a lawyer from Akron, Ohio, wrote the Cleveland Browns football team with a complaint about paper airplanes being tossed around the Stadium. The Browns replied with a letter saying "I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters"