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TIL One of the few historically reliable accounts of Pocahontas describes her doing naked cartwheels to entertain settlers.

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xVn0B TIL: The Head of the Nazi Gestapo (Secret Police) vanished at the end of WWII with no capture or confirmed death.
JYx01 TIL since the 1980s the global twinning rate has increased by 1/3, or about 1.6 million twin pairs each year, which is more twin births than ever and peaking at an unprecedented level. Asia and Africa are currently home to 80% of all twin deliveries in the world.
epyk5 TIL: The Jamaica Railway, constructed in 1845 by the British, and was the first line opened to traffic outside Europe and North America. It was the first constructed in the British colonies.
16Jgr TIL Picasso died in 1973, which is approximately two hundred years later than when I thought he lived.
lb8N TIL that we sent people to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases