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TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.

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R7KD6 TIL that music icon Curtis Mayfield was quadriplegic for the last 9 years of his life after being struck by falling lighting equipment at a 1990 concert
r5jW TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959
5YV0k TIL that Lauryn Hill fired her management and dropped out of the public eye in 2000 because she felt too compromised for the sake of the machine and uncomfortable for smiling at someone's face even when she did not like them.
Lj4P TIL that Triple Crown winner American Pharoah travels on a custom Boeing 727 known as “Air Horse One” where the seats have been replaced with stable stalls and hay
ZpVKQ TIL in Michael Jackson's song "Smooth Criminal", the refrain "Annie, are you OK?" was inspired by Resusci Anne, a dummy used in CPR training.