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TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.

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vPmdj TIL that Ernesto Miranda, the man whose case led to the famous Miranda Rights, was convicted in a second trial for his crimes that excluded the now-illegal evidence. He was paroled after five years, and fatally stabbed four years later. His killer fled to Mexico and has never been found.
pYPVG TIL the music video for Mint Royale's "Blue Song" was the direct inspiration for the 2017 feature film Baby Driver
mxJ5O TIL; there have been no recorded deaths from spider bites in Australia since 1979
E5JW TIL that the reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”“ for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.
nepwd TIL of the Diomede Islands, despite being separated by less than 4 Km, the time difference between them is of 21 hours. In winter the sea between them freezes and one can walk from "yesterday to tomorrow" or from "tomorrow to yesterday".