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TIL: people in the Early-to-Modern Era hired poor people to literally consume sins of the dead

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AD8kB TIL The word "raccoon" was adopted into English from the native Powhatan term, as used in the Colony of Virginia. It was recorded on John Smith's list of Powhatan words as aroughcun, and on that of William Strachey as arathkone
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