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TIL Cleopatra lived closer to the time of space travel than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

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mxylE TIL The Beatles song Blackbird (solo Paul McCartney) has a tapping that keeps time. The tapping was thought to be a metronome but was in fact Paul's foot keeping time as he played guitar and sang the lyrics.
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