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TIL that an eggplant is technically a fruit

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ANYJl TIL Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII Philopator) had only 6 great-great-grandparents instead of the standard 16. Also, prior to her famous romances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, she was married to her brothers, who were both named Ptolemy.
7rRlp TIL tunnels are one of the safest places to be during earthquakes since they move with the soil, while structures above ground sway back and forth.
Yv0G TIL the Hasidic Jewish population of East Ramapo NY elected Hasids to the public school board, which then started cutting the public school budget and closing public schools. Hasids don’t attend the public schools.
dDW57 TIL that Ayn Rand interviewed Oppenheimer twice in 1946 after being hired to write a screenplay on the creation of the atomic bomb, and she later based one of Atlas Shrugged's characters on him.
9YXaG TIL: Among the world's oldest living beings was a tree at least 4800 years old. With irony, "Prometheus" The Tree (AKA study plant WPN-114) finally was cut down in 1964 with involvement from a grad student studying long-living trees and the United States Forest Service. (natural,non-cloned beings)