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TIL that Julius Caesar and Cleopatra had a child together name Caesarion, which translates to “little caesar”

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YelA TIL that in 2013 a 39-storey hotel in Tokyo “disappeared,” in that it was demolished without explosives or a wrecking ball. All 39 floors were disassembled by a small crane from inside the building and there’s a timelapse of it shrinking floor by floor.
koa5 TIL that there’s 3G mobile phone coverage on the summit of Mount Everest, so you could tweet from the top.
yA9p TIL after a four-year-old was mailed from her parents to her grandparents, the mailing of people was prohibited by the US Postal Service.
x6po1 TIL that the first clear cola was White Coke, a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, who did not want to be seen drinking Coke as it was a symbol of American imperialism. The clear beverage was intended to resemble vodka.
5YWXD TIL of the Giant Impact hypothesis, where a Mars-sized planet, Theia, is theorized to have collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The debris from both planets eventually coalesced to form the Moon.