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TIL Carlos was dubbed "The Jackal" by The Guardian after one of its correspondents reportedly spotted Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal near some of the fugitive's belongings

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N7yyb TIL the name “Robin Hood” was a common alias for criminals in Medieval England. It was first used as an alias in 1262. This suggests that either an early version of the Robin Hood legend was well established, or that the Robin Hood legend developed from the alias itself.
b9KN4 TIL that Native American Powwows were first danced in the 1880s, which means they were started after Colombian colonization in the 1400s.
J75l TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago
neMQb TIL one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s
AaRn TIL During the Napoleonic wars, a monkey was hanged in England because all the Englishmen knew of the Frenchmen was that they were “short, hairy and spoke another language” and took the monkey to be a French sailor.