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TIL Pocahontas was later known as Rebecca Rolfe and her descendants include the wealthy First Families of Virginia and Nancy Reagan

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gMNA TIL that in the movie half baked when dave chapelle says to the scientist “ my grandfather was part of the Tuskegee experiments” he really was.
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