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TIL that Alice's son on the TV show "Alice", Phil McKeon, was the brother of Nancy McKeon who played Jo on the show "Facts of Life"

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9YZX6 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
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.
v1vpj TIL in 2007, a twin brother was born at 1:32 AM, However, then Daylight Savings Time occurred. His twin sister who was then born at 1:06 AM, is considered 26 minutes older.
yVj7a TIL the oldest hotel in the world is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan. It was founded in 705 AD.
rNA61 TIL Green Day started working on American Idiot after the master tapes of their previously planned album were stolen and they decided to start from scratch