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TIL the first native Americans to help the pilgrims,named Samoset and Squanto already knew English before meeting the settlers.

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M7gW7 TIL in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned by an 'epidemic' affecting young people whereby they were spending too much time reading books. It was diagnosed as 'a dangerous disease' called 'reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust.'
wN5M TIL Superior Justice Nancy Backhouse denied comedian David Foley’s motion to pay less than $17000 a month for child support, 400% of his monthly income.
ZpJBD TIL when there were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.
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