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Due to inbreeding amongst the Ptolemies, Cleopatra had only two pairs of great-grandparents. One of those pairs was the son and daughter of the other.
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The last known image of Andrew Gosden exiting King's Cross station before he disappeared without a trace on 14 September 2007. Andrew would have turned 32 today.
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In the book of Proverbs, King Solomon condemns adultery calling it the ultimate failure to honor God's design for marriage. King Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and had an affair with the Queen of Sheba.
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In 1987, 23-year-old Kenneth Parks drove 14 miles while sleepwalking, killed his mother-in-law, nearly strangled his father-in-law, and then turned himself in while covered in blood. He had no memory of it, and in 1992, was acquitted after experts confirmed he was asleep the entire time.
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Some of the 55,000 tennis balls used during Wimbledon are upcycled into tiny homes for harvest mice.
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A photo of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who ended up living at Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years when his travel documentation when missing. His story later inspired The Tom Hanks film The Terminal (2004)
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Message sent in bottle from Canada almost 13 years ago discovered on West Kerry beach in Ireland
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When Coca Cola announced it sold 4 times more than Pepsi in 2001, Pepsi responded with this commercial.
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This Tree is a living testament to history, standing tall for 1800 years
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Ethan Zuckerman, The Man Who Invented Pop-Up Ads, Apologized To The World For Unintentionally Creating One Of The Internet’s Most Hated Forms Of Advertising
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Yasuo Takamatsu is a Japanese man who lost his wife to the tsunamis which caused lethal destruction in 2011. Till today, Takamatsu dives into the ocean every week attempting to find his wife's remains to bury her properly
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She didn’t bark. She didn’t panic. She just led him to life—step by step. Roselle, the guide dog who saved her blind owner from the 78th floor on 9/11.
