Pocahontas' Play
Many people know that Pocahontas was a real woman, but assume she lived a long, long time ago. Well, she was actually alive at the same time as Shakespeare! The man who wrote classics like Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet was producing plays people would read for centuries while her home was being overtaken. Some truths of history are pretty hard to swallow...
Egghead
Think this one through... Humpty Dumpty is not an egg. At least, it was never explicitly stated in the nursery rhyme. It just says the mythical being fell off a wall, had a great fall, and could not be put back together. The illustrations associated with the rhyme are likely to subdue its gruesome nature. Kind of dark for a children's song unless he's a silly egg man...
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