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TIL Mother’s Day was originally a day for women to protest the killing of their sons and husbands in US Civil War

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deaK TIL in 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
4kaY5 TIL the Scorpions made a song in Japanese. The vocalist sung the first stanza and then gave up.
oBRP7 TIL That Guam is trying to solve snake problem by shooting mice and Tylenol out of a helicopter
WWy4 TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.
x6l6k TIL Nearly every afternoon from September to March, a thunderstorm named Hector develops over the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia