Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
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DNA tests determined in 2017 that Egyptian noblemen Khnum-Nakht and Nakht-Ankh, two brothers whose four-thousand-year-old mummies were excavated in 1907, had the same mother but different fathers.
In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
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