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TIL that Pocahontas's real name was Matoax. Her tribe carefully concealed from the English her real name, changing it to Pocahontas, "out of a superstitious fear, lest they, by the knowledge of her true name, should be enabled to do her some hurt"

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pBNb TIL That after the genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines, there are many recorded cases of bodies being claimed for scientific study and museum displays, and one case of a body being exhumed so the scrotum could be used for a tobacco pouch.
awxDM TIL that in 2002, a Marvel comics writer based an alternate version of Nick Fury on Samuel L Jackson, using his image without permission. Jackson discovered this and nearly took legal action. Marvel offered to cast him as Fury if the character was ever in a movie. Jackson took the deal.
gM8Vb TIL in 897 the Catholic Church exhumed a dead pope, dressed him in papal gear and put his corpse on trial.
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9wp47 TIL that Princess Leia never had a lightsaber in Star Wars (even though she was Force sensitive) and when asked on Stephen Colbert’s show about this she said: “You know, it's that whole women - it's a bad thing for women. Even in space, there's a double standard. Even with the Force.”