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TIL: Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and females were ‘gay girls‘.

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oRnpR TIL about Elsie Eiler, who since her husband's death in 2004, has remained the sole resident of Monowi, Nebraska.
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