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y9nM TIL Salem Village that we know from the Witch Trials was renamed Danvers, MA and the current Salem was then known as Salem Town.
VBvEm TIL: According to an obscure medieval legend, the Countess Margaret of Henneberg, a Dutch noblewoman, was punished by God for insulting a poor beggar woman carrying twins and believing her to be an adulteress. The countess's punishment was to give birth to 365 minute children on Good Friday, 1276.
GK1N TIL that in 2012 Jessica Alba co-founded a company that is now valued at one billion dollars, with annual sales of 150 million.
v1x5K TIL that physicist Wallace Sabine was assigned the impossible task of fixing the sound quality of a poorly designed lecture hall. Despite having no background in acoustics, he discovered a relationship between chamber size, absorption surface and sound quality. Thus founding the field of acoustics.
6EvrJ TIL When a woman with breast implants is cremated, the implants will melt into "goo." It drips to the bottom of the furnace and needs to be cleaned up once cooled.