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TIL the founder of Mother's Day later fought to have it abolished, because it had become too commercialized. She said it was meant "to be a day of sentiment, not profit."

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6enQ TIL the Wemale people have an origin myth about a girl who poops out valuable objects such as coral, knives and gongs.
nW8MG TIL about Zamor, a child who was kidnapped by British slave traders and eventually sold to King Louis XV, who gifted him to a mistress. He would later turn against her during the French Revolution, before being imprisoned himself as an accomplice.
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