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TIL Mozart composed the overture to his opera “Don Giovanni” the morning of the premiere

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VM604 TIL that of the 21 people executed for witchcraft in Iceland, 20 of them where male and only one was a woman.
N7yDJ TIL ancient Chinese physicians kept a small ivory "medicine doll" in their desks to help them treat female patients, who were forbidden from showing too much skin to a male other than their husband. Women seeking medical attention would point to the areas on the doll where they had discomfort.
0dG6A TIL, Anna Jarvis, who founded Mother's Day in 1908 (in America), passionately opposed its growing commercialization and eventually campaigned against the holiday.
4knn5 TIL of William Walker, an American physician, lawyer, journalist, mercenary, slavery supporter, and Southern folk hero from from Tennessee. Walker seized control of Nicaragua from 1856 to 1857, and convinced many U.S. Southerners of the desirability of creating a Confederate empire in Latin America.
neaNP TIL about ablaut reduplication, which is an interesting and necessary rule in the english language that most people are unaware of. This rule pertains to the order in which we say repeated words with changing vowels. E.g saying ding-dong sounds completely normal whereas dong-ding sounds insane.