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TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.
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TIL that in 2019, Joey Gaydos Jr., who played lead guitarist Zack “Zack Attack” Mooneyham in Jack Black’s “School of Rock” band, was arrested by Florida police for stealing guitars and pawning them off.
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TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
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TIL that the doctor who attended to Osceola ignored his dying wish to be buried in Florida, and removed Osceola's head after his death to put it on display in his drug store. When his children misbehaved, he would move the head to their room for the night.
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TIL about a spy themed restaurant called the SafeHouse. It was founded in 1966 and it has a hidden location with a secret entrance. A password is needed to enter and if it's not given, patrons will have to do silly tasks that are broadcasted to people inside the restaurant in order to enter.
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TIL Writer Boris Vian was so upset with the producers that adapted his most famous book on screen he collapsed from cardiac arrest and died while attending the movie premiere, cursing the executives with his last words