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TIL that The Pocahontas Myth by Disney is pretty much 100% false according to the Powhatan Nation

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X06Xj TIL the Old London Bridge was crowded with houses and shops, some of them reaching up to 6 storeys in height.
9YQy7 TIL of a serial arsonist in California who worked as an arson investigator and fire captain, and would commit arson on his way to and from arson investigator conferences. Before his arrest, he even wrote a novel about a firefighter who was a serial arsonist.
GnRJ TIL that when the Tsar Bomba (the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated) was tested, the fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and it’s yield (50 mt) was about half the maximum yield of the bomb’s design (100 Mt).
d8D4B TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."
woAlE TIL a serial killer “Barbie” Karla Homolka, who together with her husband “Ken” Paul Bernardo murdered 3 young women including her own sister, spent only 12 years in prison & is happily married to her trial attorney’s brother raising 3 children