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TIL Cleopatra and Julius Caesar nicknamed their lovechild “Caesarion” which means “Little Caesar”

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QNlp TIL in 2007 listeners of BBC Radio 2 ranked Queen as the ‘top British band’ of all time, better than The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones
Px6g TIL that The actors in Planet of the Apes were so affected by the make-up that when not shooting, the actors would automatically segregate with the species they were portraying.
xAN7 TIL launching a nuclear weapon within the City of Chicago is punishable by up to 30 days’ imprisonment and a $1,000 fine [x-post from /r/Chicago]
nWp4B TIL while abiotic synthesis of chiral molecules always yields an equal mixture of their enantiomers, the biomolecules that make up life are always chiral and single-handed. Sientists believe that figuring out how life emerged from a racemic prebiotic world is key to undersanding the origin of life.
WalB TIL that in 1894 a local priest saved a 4 year old boy from drowning, that 4 year old boy was Hitler.