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TIL: Hebrew became extinct as a spoken native language around 200 CE. It was revived in Paris on 13 October 1881 when a man called Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his friends agreed to exclusively speak Hebrew in their conversations.

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VM8Om TIL that in response to a satanic cult in Germany that worshiped a half-man, half-cat demon, the pope declared cats satanic, which caused the public to kill cats. This made the bubonic plague worse, which was also blamed on Satan.
xVYoB TIL fans turned on Seinfeld character George Costanza twice. He was played as being a terrible person doing atrocious things, and while viewers happily went along with most of his unsavory schemes, they reviled him when he killed Susan and when he ate an eclair out of the garbage.
JYVOl TIL that 84% of the world’s rough diamonds and 50% of the world’s polished diamonds pass through the Belgian city of Antwerp, which houses 4 diamond exchanges and over 1700 registered diamond traders in an area of less than one square mile
ADQeB TIL that tigers can, and will, take revenge on those who have wronged them. They are one of the most vengeful animals on the planet.
Q1Nd TIL that there’s a variation of The Three Wise Monkeys, the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” monkeys covering their eyes, ears, and mouth(???). The variation contains a fourth monkey who covers its genitals to represent “do no evil”