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TIL that Cleopatra’s ethnicity and her mom’s identity are actually unknown.

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kJ89W TIL about Operation Midnight Climax, a CIA program in the 1950s and 1960s that involved the use of prostitutes to lure unwitting individuals into apartments that had been set up with hidden cameras and microphones. Part of MK-Ultra
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