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TIL that in the 5th century, St. Benedict wrote a rule book for monks. He convinced them to be celibate, poor, to get up in the middle of the night to pray, to engage in hard labor and almost no conversation, to obey the orders of their abbott … but he couldn’t convince them to give up the booze.

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