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TIL Pocahontas died when she was only 21/22 and was never romantically involved with John Smith as Hollywood would have you believe

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MeKla TIL More Than Half Of American Adults Still Have Their Childhood Stuffed Animal
p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
loleB TIL the name “Imogen” may well be a typo. Its first recorded use is in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. It is thought that he wrote “Innogen”, a common Celtic name at the time. The printers misread the “nn” as “m” and thus a new name was born!
xXd1 TIL that when Pixar started to work on Toy Story 3, all the animators agreed to shave their hair, and to have a competition to see who could last the longest without cutting it.
XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)