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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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p8oy8 TIL about Drapetomania, a mental illness that Dr. Samuel Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of slaves wanting to flee captivity
7r40L TIL that a short stretch of highway in Arizona counts off exit numbers, road signs and markers in kilometers due to a push in the 80's to convert the country's measurement system to metric.
GAokQ TIL that Jesse James stole a gold shipment from America's transcontinental railroad in 1873. A Chinese student wrote "nothing occurred on our Eastward journey to mar the enjoyment ... excepting a train robbery, a consequent smashup of the engine, and the murder of the engineer".
D1j8g TIL that there is a shrine located in Kyoto, Japan dedicated to the 38,000 severed noses of Korean troops and civilians. Japanese warriors would traditionally bring back body parts of enemies as proof of their deeds. A total of 214,752 heads were brought back after the second invasion of Korea.
Oo8WR TIL of the "Fighting McCook" family of Ohio. Two brothers, Daniel & John, & thirteen of their sons were involved in the Union army, making the family one of the most prolific in American military history. Six McCooks reached the rank of brigadier general or higher.