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TIL Cleopatra married her own brothers.

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gKM4 TIL during the cleanup of the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (which killed 492 people) firefighters found several dead guests sitting in their seats, with drinks in their hands. They had been overcome so quickly by fire and toxic smoke that they hadn’t had time to move.
xboD TIL After going on a killing spree and escaping state custody, a man released his hostage after she gave him meth and made him pancakes.
RO1 TIL John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, from getting hit by a train.
nem8b TIL The candy PEZ is an abbreviation of the German word PfeffErminZ. Which translates to Peppermint.
KYmOR TIL The Weber Grill, a kettle grill design popularized in the 1950s, was first designed by a salesman at a metal works company. Looking for a way to protect food he was grilling from wind, he repurposed metal buoys his company was making to make a covered grill.