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

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8mNZ TIL Lemmy from Motorhead had an action figure made of him. He asked if they were going to put a penis on it. They said no. He replied “Well, then it’s not going to get much action then, is it?”
4Xela TIL, a British woman saved £3,000 and lost 98 lbs (44 kg) after putting herself on a World War II ration diet for an entire year.
5YZwk TIL alpacas are being used as bodyguards in some turkey farms, since they instinctively accept the birds into their herd and scare off foxes.
XENWk TIL of "Limerence" - a state of mind from romantic or non-romantic feelings for a person that includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies and a desire to maintain a relationship with the person and have one's feelings reciprocated. It is also defined as an involuntary state of intense desire.
6JMw TIL a German U-boat mysteriously disappeared in 1945 and the sole survivor of its crew, who missed the voyage due to illness, found out about the fate of his shipmates in 1999 by watching a NOVA episode about the submarine