In real life, Pocahontas was 11 years old when she met John Smith - he was 28.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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