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TIL mother’s day was officially made a holiday in 1914, so this year is the 100th anniversary.

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lojya TIL that by international agreement, a meter is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ​1⁄299792458 second.
A1Dn TIL Paul McCartney, when writing Eleanor Rigby, named her after a costar and a store, only later to find a Grave of Eleanor Rigby near where John Lennon and Paul met.
0EBL TIL that employees and customers of the popular grocery chain Market Basket successfully boycotted the company after its beloved CEO was fired. During the monumental protests, Market Basket lost an estimated 10$ Million per day.
kJ7YW TIL that the highest diversity of bee species is found in deserts and other temperate dry regions as opposed to tropical forests. So there are a lot more bee species in the US southwest than in the Amazon, and a lot more in Turkey than in the Congo.
kJ4pB TIL about "Reporter's Privilege" which protects journalists from having to reveal their sources of information in court due to the delicate nature of their work that relies of secret information