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TIL that the creator of mothers day spent the rest of her life trying to end it’s celebration and died without children in 1948

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wYJ8 TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.
EgmW TIL Fall (aka Autumn) is the only season to have two names because the switchover from one to the other happened during the founding of the American colonies
Y7ZG7 TIL there is a global cycling race circuit for 2-year olds. They race 12”, pedalless “balance bikes”. A recent race had 250 participants ages 2-4.
xV0lg TIL that Gene Kelly had a 103 degree fever when filming the title number for Singin' in the Rain
R7Yrl TIL about GhostTunes. It was Garth Brooks' answer to not being able to carve out a satisfactory deal with the streaming platforms to showcase his music. Lasted less than 3 years and was eventually sold to Amazon where Brooks' entire catalog is exclusively available now.