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TIL: 242 known languages went extinct during the 20th century

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BeVL TIL that a live nuclear bomb was ejected over the coast of Georgia, USA. The B-47 plane carrying it was hit by another plane, and the bomb was ejected to prevent detonation during the crash. The bomb was never found and still lies somewhere near the coast.
XEJlr TIL during the middle Ages saffron was so expensive some traders would try to increase their profits by bulking up the herb with yellow marigold petals. When authorities in Nuremberg, where the herb was mainly traded, found out about these tainted parcels of saffron, the traders were burned alive.
8br8 TIL in 2002, Sega’s president gifted all $695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast; he died shortly afterwards following an arduous battle with cancer.
PXRG TIL Suge Knight threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a balcony if he didn’t sign him the rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Suge used the money to fund Death Row Records
KYYdE TIL that American Actor Peter Weller (Robocop) has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art