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TIL in the Netherlands, citizens with disabilities receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year

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Me47A TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian.the last queen of Egypt wasn't born in Egypt. As best as Historians can tell, Cleopatra VII (that's her formal name) was Greek. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
ZY1p TIL that the earliest artists were probably female: ‘Venus’ figures accurately depict what a woman sees looking at her own body
kNx4 TIL there’s a hidden room behind Lincoln’s hairline at Mount Rushmore. The artist wanted it to be his own special signature on the monument, a room where visitors could learn about American history and a place to display busts of famous Americans and key documents like the Constitution.
0dN6L TIL Interstate 19 running between Tucson and Nogales is the only freeway in the US with distances labeled exclusively in kilometers.
4kXwg TIL the history behind the Official Flag of Los Angeles, “Fiesta Flag” representing 3 major Californian crops, and the two nations that ruled the area before it became part of the US.