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TIL that to this day, the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony has not been found

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GYjW5 TIL the closest relatives to Primates, aside from flying lemurs and treeshrews, are rodents and lagomorths (rabbits, hares, pikas)
nG6r TIL President Hoover asked every American to turn off their lights for 1 minute in October 1931, as a tribute to Thomas Edison and his recent death.
yV5Zl TIL Kyle and Eric Menendez appeared on a Mark Jackson basketball card taken between the murder of their parents and their arrest.
dNMB TIL that there is a mutation of the gene CCR5, called Delta 32, which introduces a premature stop codon into the gene. This premature codon means cells that have this mutation can’t receive the HIV virus. Individuals with a homozygous CCR5-Delta 32 mutation are completely resistant to the HIV virus.
GAZmE TIL that the song "Rap God" by Eminem has the world record for highest amount of words in one song, at 4.28 words per second.