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Today I Learned that Hebrew was once an extinct language and remains as the only successfully revived language.

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NwQe TIL a bully dropped 7 year old Mike Tyson’s glasses in a truck’s gas tank and tried to steal his meatballs. Several years later, Tyson came back and “beat him in the streets like a fucking dog.”
wLkRP TIL a drunk Norwegian with an air gun hijacked a plane in 1985, with demands to speak to the prime minister. After consuming the plane's entire beer supply, he surrendered his weapon to authorities in exchange for more beer. There were no deaths or injuries.
OGAKR TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer
9YQ1M TIL of the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, which is credited with helping to revitalize the Star Wars franchise in 1991 with the release of the first novel in the trilogy, Heir to the Empire, and formalizing the Star Wars Expanded Universe
R7AWQ TIL David Bowie hated Gary Numan so much to begin with that he had Numan thrown off the billing of a show they were both booked to appear in