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TIL Pocahontas is the twelfth great-grandmother of the American actor Edward Norton.

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v1a9r TIL of Leo Major, a WWII French Canadian soldier who singlehandedly captured 93 German soldiers and in the following year liberated the German-occupied Dutch city of Zwolle by himself.
gXJ4 TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”
Yp9aB TIL the exact origins of surfing are not certain, but it was first observed by Europeans on a ship in Tahiti back in 1767. Research suggests that surfing dates back to the ancient Polynesian cultures. According to data collected and myths, the chief of a tribe was the man who could surf the best.
oBAyA Today i learned that you can buy 13 metric tons of bread for 16,250 pounds in birmingham.
ywwl TIL: A species of Japanese crab evolved to have a shell resembling the face of a samurai warrior. Those crabs survived better because fisherman admired them and threw them back in the ocean.