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TIL The founder of Mother’s day was so disgusted with its commercialization that she collected petitions to rescind Mother’s Day and spent the rest of her life trying to abolish the holiday she founded, only to end up in a sanitarium supported by contributions from the hated Florists Exchange.

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P1YxE TIL the only armed expedition that resulted in casualties in modern icelandic history happened in 1627, when a group of pirates led by a dutch convert to islam sailed from Algeria and raided the coast of Iceland, capturing 400 and killing 50 people
bOwp TIL it’s Maryland’s 225th birthday. Happy Birthday Maryland!
7rK4O TIL the grammatical rule against ending a sentence with a proposition was first stated by John Dryden, recommended Shakespeare's works be rewritten to remove style impurities.
N7JWP TIL that a government funded Minecraft Replica of Denmark, intended for educational purposes, was bombed several times by American hackers using smuggled in game dynamite, after which they planted several US flags on detonation sites.
9wd7Q TIL Before Memorial Day was made a Federal holiday in 1971, it was mostly known as Decoration Day. It was a traditional day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and family mostly in Appalachian Mountains of the southern US. It also has roots in Liberian, Welsh, Irish and Mormon cultures and religions.