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TIL Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother’s Day, regretted it as the day grew more commercialized. She died broke from spending so much money on her fight to end the holiday.

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KwDG TIL that the oldest living thing on Earth is 6,000 tons of grass
QgOX TIL a psychiatrist argued that Anakin Skywalker is a useful example for explaining borderline personality disorder to medical students and hoped his findings would raise awareness of the disorder, especially among teens
4X0P6 TIL that our solar system's planet configuration is quite unusual and that it is more common for extrasolar planetary systems to have larger planets close to their suns, as opposed to our solar system which has small terrestial planets closer in, followed by the gas giants further away
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
dDMw9 TIL in 1926 Brazil had a president with name of Washington but was overthrown in a coup d'etat and removed from the presidency during Revolution of 1930,putting an end to Milk coffee politics and starting the Vargas Era in 1930.Washington served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic