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TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." The main ingredient was morphine.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_11stce2 on March 16, 2023 at 12:53 PM in todayilearned

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TIL about Saint-Malo, Brittany. This city on the French coast has some of the highest tides in Europe, rising as high as 40 feet during parts of the year, and the water withdrawing hundreds of yards. A sea wall, built in the 17th century, protects the city from the tides.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_11stv48 on March 16, 2023 at 1:15 PM in todayilearned

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TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_103zcvo on January 5, 2023 at 1:48 PM in todayilearned

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TIL about Kwihnai Tosabitʉ or "White Eagle," a Medicine Man and messiah of the Comanche Native American tribe. Uniting all of the Comanche people and several other groups, he led them to an immediate defeat and was renamed Isatai'i "Wolf's Vulva."

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Submitted by marmorset t3_10p3xbk on January 30, 2023 at 2:26 PM in todayilearned

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TIL about the Glass Armonica, a musical instrument invented by Ben Franklin. Inspired by playing glass cups, bowls were mounted on a rotating spindle allowing a musician with wet fingers to play music. Mozart and Beethoven wrote for it but after 60 years strange rumors spread and it fell out of use.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_zd83bs on December 5, 2022 at 2:23 PM in todayilearned

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TIL 24 of the 50 US states have Native American derived names (many through French), 1 is Hawaiian, 4 directly from Spanish, 11 named after people, several of various origins (English, French, Latin), and at least 6 of unknown origin.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_yj7shv on November 1, 2022 at 12:46 PM in todayilearned

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TIL the pet food company Chewy sends flowers and a card when a customer's pet dies. They will reimburse the purchase of unopened food and suggest it be donated to a shelter. They also offer the option of talking to someone about the grief of losing a pet.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_y8xdtw on October 20, 2022 at 12:48 PM in todayilearned

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TIL about the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The daughter of Thutmose I and his first wife, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and was his first wife. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for the baby Thutmose III, her husband's heir by another wife. She ruled 22 years until her death.

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Submitted by marmorset t3_y8xoxa on October 20, 2022 at 1:02 PM in todayilearned

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TIL that when the French first arrived in North America they met the Ojibwe Indians who introduced them to other tribes but used nasty names. The Lakota/Dakota people were called "Nadowessiwag," which became Nadouessioux in French, then Sioux in English. It means "little snake."

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Submitted by marmorset t3_yfuoqz on October 28, 2022 at 5:19 PM in todayilearned

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