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W76WN TIL In 1656 the City of London soldiers were ordered to patrol the streets and seize any food they discovered being prepared for Christmas celebrations. They saw Christmas as a wasteful festival that threatened Christian beliefs.
5VODQ TIL that the UK government began to buy and nationalise over 300 pubs in 1916 because they felt the nation's workers' excessive drinking was having a detrimental effect on the war effort
QAL9 TIL that the word bedlam originated from Bethlehem. Shortened to Bethlem and pronounced Bedlam by the locals, the English hospital was known for housing primarily “lunatic” patients and is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the world.