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TIL that "Fighting With My Family" is based on a true story about a wrestling family from Norwich, England. The youngest daughter made it to the WWE and her wrestling name is Paige.

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OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.
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