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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.

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Ooep4 TIL writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ray Bradbury, actors Christopher Reeve and Linda Hamilton, and astronaut Alan Shepard are all descendants of Mary Bradbury, a woman tried and sentenced in the Salem Witch Trials who escaped death and lived to age 85.
160y4 TIL the 1987 movie Million Dollar Mystery was promoted with a real contest in which $1 million were hidden in an undisclosed location that the winner would correctly identify. 14-year-old Alesia Lenae Jones won the contest.
xV96g TIL: The phrase "[murdered] in cold blood" doesn't refer to someone being cruel. It refers to the killer having had time to think over the crime and still do it in a calculated way. As opposed to doing it in the "heat of passion", their blood had time to cool before they committed the crime.
50oD TIL the International Movie Database (IMDb) is almost 25 years old, older than the public release of the first web browser.
6EVPJ TIL that there was a Great Molasses Flood that occurred on January 15, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts. A large molasses storage tank burst open and a huge wave of molasses flooded the streets around 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150.