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TIL Facist and F**got are both derived from the same Latin root word fasces meaning bundle of sticks

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R7jAj TIL John Wilkes Booth was surprised to find little public sympathy after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Formerly anti-Lincoln newspapers condemned the act and while some Southerns were happy Lincoln was dead others feared it would spur retribution upon the already defeated Confederate states.
bWgQ TIL Two days after an ant dies, it gives off an odor that lets the other ants know it is dead. The ants then pick it up and carry it to a graveyard.
4L06 TIL Mother’s Day was created to honor mothers who had passed away. And the woman who created Mother’s Day regretted what it had become.
lorNr TIL The Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, and other long suspension bridges like it, are built with the curvature of the earth in mind. The two towers are 41 mm farther apart at the top than at the base, which makes the bridge not fall over.
RE8a TIL that Universal’s highest grossing production is actually the Broadway musical Wicked, which outgrossed even Jurassic World.