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TIL pro-segregationist Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd was a direct descendant of Pocahontas

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9YGV6 TIL - When you die you can have a water cremation. Your body is mixed with water & lye, and then heated until it is dissolved.
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9y1G TIL that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve, the full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”