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TIL that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian

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dDQL7 TIL about the Library of Caesarea, a theological library founded in the 3rd century by the Christian philosopher Origen. It contained over 30,000 Christian manuscript and housed the first critical edition of the Hebrew Bible including a lost Gospel.
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