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TIL that Nectanebo II was the last of the native Egyptian kings. Since then (340 BC) Egypt has been ruled by non-natives till the Egyptian revolution in 1952.

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9YAyG TIL the earliest evidence of hominid murder is 430,000 yr old skull found in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain. The skull has two distinct holes in the forehead, thought to be from blunt force trauma and was found dumped down a deep shaft in a cave.
D1NVp TIL that Harriet Tubman once pretended to read a newspaper on a train to avoid being recognised by a former master. Because the man knew Harriet was illiterate, he ignored the black woman reading on the train.
XEbP8 TIL that Emma is the most popular baby girl name in the US
ebxE TIL that when George Washington moved to Philadelphia to serve as president, he rotated his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania in order to circumvent a law that freed slaves being held in the state for longer than 6 continuous months. The rotation itself was illegal, but no one opposed him.
yQLw TIL that ‘Spirited Away’ is actually about prostitution