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TIL Anna Jarvis the founder of Mother's day came to regret it and actively campaigned against those who were trying to profit from it.

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wAKM TIL German footballer Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil
LQ060 TIL of the Order of the Solar Temple, a New Age cult that claimed to be founded on the ideals of the Knights Templar. In 1994, they were responsible for the death of a 3 month old baby in Quebec; some time after, many members committed mass suicide in France, Switzerland and Canada.
Oovag TIL: One person, the not-well-known General Leslie Groves, oversaw both the Manhattan Project (the WWII program to make an atomic bomb) and the construction of The Pentagon. An underling called him both "the biggest S.O.B. I have ever worked for" & the best possible person to run the A-bomb project.
dDerB TIL “Admiral” Dewey Phillips Traveled down the Mississippi River on a mattress
grl64 TIL 850,000 people were tried in court for taking part in the Rwandan genocide, the last case ended in 2012