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TIL Irene Bergman is the oldest woman on Wall Street at 100 years old she’s still managing money for clients

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Pevn TIL there is a “cult” offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.
j6x1n TIL about parfilage, a fashionable pastime among upper class ladies in 18th century France in which they would painstakingly destroy textile goods, thread by thread in a deliberate reversal of normal "women's work", sometimes even having things made specifically for that purpose
GYW0N TIL the median annual salary for church Pastors in the US is about $94,000
DPeD TIl that in 1379, a baby was born named “Diot Coke”
M4aA TIL that on 4/16/2007 Prof. Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust Survivor, held the door of his classroom closed whilst the Virginia Tech Shooter attempted egress, shooting Liviu five times through the door. Liviu enabled all but 1 of his 23 students to escape and survive. Liviu did not.