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TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.

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b99D0 TIL where Nachos came from... invented in 1943 by Ignacio Anaya, and the ballpark cheese-sauce version was created by Arlington Stadium employee Frank Liberto, who recently passed.
NXVZN TIL there is a suburb of Chicago called "Wauconda" (pronounced like Wakonda) that set the record for the largest snowball fight in 2005 with nearly 3000 participants, beating the previous record set at a Swiss ski resort.
xmY5 TIL: When the Norse vikings sailed for America in the 11th century, they fully expected (and hoped) to find a race of monsters to fight. Instead, they found the indigenous peoples. Disappointed at finding no real monsters, the Norse (known for being tall) called them Skræling, or pygmies.
9wZPX TIL that a researcher called Celia Sanchez-Ramos invented a biometric system that authenticates identity through the cornea instead of through the retina, which can allow for an identity match in under a second
BrRgD TIL that the last civil war veteran's widow died in 2004 at the age of 97.She married the 81 year old vet in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.