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TIL that the Cornish language became extinct but is now being revived by a growing number of enthusiasts.

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Xb48 TIL of the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge - a professional high diver who wanted to ‘demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air’. He proved himself correct after falling, safely, 135 feet through the air; dying from impact upon hitting the water.
oRRXK TIL that Mummy Brown was a pigment used by European painters that was made from the flesh of Egyptian mummies. It was also common to export mummies from Egypt to Europe to be ground up and used as “medicine”
yVNoX TIL that the actual heart of Saint Valentine is kept in a golden box in a church in Dublin, Ireland.
W7og9 TIL the popular Halloween song "Monster Mash" is a parody of "Mashed Potato Time" by Dee Dee Sharp, released months earlier
yV8jJ TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.