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TIL Cleopatra of Egypt was of Greek descent and she was the first in her dynasty who could speak Egyptian

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J1bGV TIL that in 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinema. The first film to screen publicly in the country after the ban was lifted was "The Emoji Movie"
8eMQK TIL only a slim majority of Americans realize Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
D1W5Y TIL: The light atop a Hollywood record company building has been quietly blinking-out messages in Morse code since first being turned-on in 1956 --by Morse's own granddaughter. (The default message is one word, but it once revealed an album release date: “Katy Perry. Prism. October 22, 2013.")
ANw54 TIL the naming of Haumea, the first dwarf planet since Pluto, was held up for years due to a dispute over who should be credited with its discovery. Michael Brown first noticed the planet but Jose Luis Ortiz first announced it. Brown accused Ortiz of fraud while Ortiz accused Brown of manipulation.
d8V5Z TIL: Crying is good for you because emotional/stress tears carry higher levels of stress hormones being flushed out of your system and higher levels of mood-regulating manganese.