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

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KOWp4 TIL silent film star Harold Lloyd performed his stunts in the 1923 film Safety Last! effectively one-handed due to losing his right thumb and index finger while holding a bomb for publicity pictures four years earlier
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