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TIL that Hitler’s Third Reich awarded a gold, diamond-engraved Cross of the German Mother to women upon the birth of their thirteenth child.

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4kn46 TIL of Kathryn Lawes, the "Mother of Sing Sing" - She was a warden's wife and lived with her children in a facility at the infamous prison. She was so much beloved by the inmates — to the point that they all called her “Mother”
N71NP TIL the Woolworths store in Australia is unconnected to the historic brand in the UK and the US. The name was registered by the Sydney founders as a dare to see if it would be allowed. Despite the brand name being well established overseas it was available in New South Wales.
vPXmr TIL salt and pepper didn’t collab with each other until the 17th century.
jLBX TIL that one of the assassins who attempted to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand threw a grenade but missed the Archduke’s car. He swallowed cyanide and jumped in the River Miljacka, the cyanide was old and did not work, and the river was only 10cm deep. He was captured seconds later.
dDDd7 TIL: Mad magazine cartoonist, Al Jaffee at age 101, currently holds the longest-ever career as a comic artist working from 1942 - 2020.