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TIL that King Charles travels with a custom made toilet seat

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xVB55 TIL Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (an ancestor of Cleopatra) was so despised after enacting a political purge that he had the nickname 'Physcon,' meaning 'Fatty'
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