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TIL the kiwifruit is native to and originally from China

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neAPP TIL according to the payroll records of the French monasteries, a significant minority of the names were female. The medieval church was sexist, but women as well as men built the cathedrals.
EgrEo TIL that when women become pregnant, their periods stop temporarily.
W7JJA TIL a sequel to Gladiator was drafted in which Russel Crowe's Maximus is resurrected as an immortal warrior by the Roman gods to kill Jesus Christ and his disciples. He would have then fought in the Crusades, Vietnam War, and WWII before landing a job at the modern-day Pentagon
Lk8Od TIL about Lover’s Eye art. Jewelry popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s when stylish aristocratic Englishmen and women often wore the miniature portraits depicting their spouse or lover. Because the tiny watercolors revealed only the eye, the subject’s identity was kept secret.
v1RK TIL a jefferson county teacher was suspended after he replied to a student calling him a Nigga" “Nigga This, Nigga that, Nigga please, can you hand a nigga a pencil”