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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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oBwXL Til: Norwegian National Law of 1274 had prohibitions against consorting with trolls.
gYA TIL that the mummy of Ramesses II (aka Ozymandias) was flown to Paris in 1974, and was issued a passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”.
6j48 TIL that India is the only country that uses m.r.p.(Maximum Retail Price) system to fix a maximum price for products and commodities and a product cannot be sold for a price above its m.r.p.
0w41p TIL that a town in Peru celebrates “Takanakuy” on Dec. 25 every year, where men and women settle grudges from the past year by calling each other out and having a fistfight.
78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.