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TIL, Anna Jarvis, who founded Mother's Day in 1908 (in America), passionately opposed its growing commercialization and eventually campaigned against the holiday.

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E1jVW Today I learned you shouldn't give Asprin to children and teenagers after chickenpox or the flu, it can cause or exacerbate Reye's syndrome
jJYR TIL Former French President, Félix Faure, died at age 59 from a massive stroke while making love to his mistress. French newspapers and political leaders spread rumors of his death including that his “stiff hands were entangled in her hair” and that he had to be surgically separated from her.
wolR1 TIL the reason many African countries have the colours green, yellow and red on their flags is because of an Ethiopian influence. The colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology because it avoided being taken over by a colonial power.
dDVE9 TIL of the "NanoHedgehog" - a molybdene compound that is large enough to be compared with proteins
8aVJZ TIL the Wright Brothers were notorious patent trolls who tried to ruin everyone who tried to innovate with flight. Also see American Innovations.