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Today I learned that the lyrics of "baby owl" are actually the lyrics of "baby i'll rule"

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Yo1v TIL that Cleopatra’s family tree was full of inbreeding, including three marriages between an uncle & niece and three between siblings. As a result, some of her ancestors were the same person. For instance, her mother was her father’s niece and thus not only her mother but also her first cousin.
x65eD TIL In 2011, Toyota announced that, through a public voting campaign, the plural of Prius is Prii, pronounced "pree-eye".
neljP TIL that the finance minister of Latvia is also Woman Grandmaster of chess, the second highest-ranking chess title that exists for women
LQgYp TIL that Celine Dion once refused an award (Anglophone Artist of the Year)
4X5ab TIL there is a time system called Decimal Time (which is not the same as Metric Time) which splits the day into 10 hours of 100 minutes, with each minute being 100 seconds. A decimal minute is about 86 seconds in our current measurement.