These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

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...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.