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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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Oo5g1 TIL about Boatswain (1803-1808), Lord Byron's beloved Newfoundland dog. When he contracted rabies Byron personally nursed him despite the risk. After he died Byron wrote the poem "Epitaph to a Dog" in his honour. His wish to be buried with Boatswain was denied. The dog's tomb is larger than Byron's.
GAQDQ TIL that the SS Warrimoo positioned itself to be in two different seasons, hemispheres, days, months, years, decades, and centuries all at the same time.
rRa11 TIL of Jennifer Teege, a half-black woman that didn’t learn until she was 38 that her grandfather had been Amon Göth, the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant dramatized in Schindler’s List
PxZZ TIL - ChildLine has spent 25 years ensuring an adult is at the end of a phone to help children cope with all kinds of serious issues, ranging from bullying, neglect and violence at home to alcohol and drug problems.
4XQ06 TIL that in 2020, the first quantum chess tournament was played. In quantum chess, there are multiple boards on which the pieces exist, and any quantum move creates a superposition of boards. In order to determine where the entangled piece is actually located, a player must make a measurement