› added 5 years ago

139

TIL the creator of Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis, became increasingly upset at the commercialisation of the holiday and in 1943 even started a petition to rescind it

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

XEAYP TIL that a study from 2011-2015 of 160,000 adults from 31 countries concluded that teens who had lower levels of secondary education but who came from homes filled with books became as literate, numerate and technologically apt in adulthood as university graduates who grew up with only a few books.
EOoV TIL Kim Jong-il was granted 54 titles, including ‘Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven’, 'Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love’ and 'Amazing politician’.
yVXnw TIL that the A1 Highway in the UK used to be a dedicated road for reigining monarchs since medieval times.
kxA1 TIL that it was believed that women with bound feet developed extra strong vaginal muscles because of the mincing steps they took, thus making sex more pleasurable.
QJjEk TIL, unless you have particularly rare facial features, you MAY have literally thousands of doppelgängers (nearly identical lookalikes) around the world