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TIL that Cleopatra was not Egyptian. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy took the reigns of Egypt after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. and he launched a dynasty of Greek-speaking rulers that lasted for three centuries

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R7nQ6 TIL that due to a different body structure and the size of some limbs, black people have a center of mass higher than people of other races. This causes their feet to hit the ground faster when running. This is why, all 25 world record holders for men's 100-meter dash since 1968 are black.
mrxy TIL that the largest earthquake to ever be recorded hit Chile in 1960, measuring M9.5. The earthquake lasted for 10 minutes with tsunamis of 8 & 10m. The fault rupture was 800km long, 1/50 of the circumference of the earth.
9Y4B7 TIL When Madonna broke up with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, he took back all the paintings he gave her and painted them all black.
oBvQo TIL When Alvin "tex" Johnston was told to "sell" Boeing's new 707 jet liner to a crowd of business men and reporters in 1955, he rolled the aircraft inverted in a 1 G maneuver called a barrel roll without the knowledge of the companies president.
wPEM TIL there is a unit called the “Manhatten distance” (or city block distance), describing the distance of two points when you, rather than measuring the direct linear connection, sum up the length of the left/right and the up/down movement, as if you walk along blocks in a big city.