The world has had a permanent fascination with Cleopatra for ages, as iconic works about her include a 1960s film and a play by William Shakespeare. Even if you don’t know that much about her, you definitely know she was a beautiful Egyptian, right? Well, no — on both counts.

Cleopatra was actually not a native Egyptian, and there are accounts and an uncovered coin that suggest that she wasn’t all that physically attractive. There are plenty of other strange things about her life that you may have wrong as well, so let’s take a look at some weird things you probably didn’t know about Cleopatra.

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Not from around here | 0:00
Keeping it in the family | 1:33
A beautiful mind | 2:26
Twisted sister | 3:38
A-scent to greatness | 5:07
Born this way | 6:01
Reality bites | 7:13
Got milk? | 8:03
A woman scorned | 9:05
Invasion of the husband-snatchers | 9:57

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