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TIL until approximately the late 1400's the word "girl" used to refer to a child of either sex.

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8bxP TIL the official city motto of Paris is “Fluctuat nec mergitur”, or “She is tossed by the waves but does not sink”
KBO9 TIL in 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if the could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.
E1Jdp TIL the ‘X’ shaped Confederate flag was no more than a battle flag and never the adopted flag of the confederacy.
1J4W TIL in 1964 someone in England bet ten pounds a man would walk on the moon before 1 January 1970, at 1000/1 odds.
Br4oD TIL of angel gowns. Wedding dresses are donated to charities and people sew them into infant sized dresses for deceased infants that died in NICU. Grieving families can take pictures or baptize their babies prior to laying them to rest. These are made through no cost of the family.