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TIL Jimmy Carter de-regulated the beer market making it possible for craft brew

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b9Xa9 TIL that Margaret Mitchell's husband said to her "For God's sake, Peggy, can't you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?" She went on to write "Gone with the Wind."
d8ELd TIL Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Maryum Ali was a support worker for 15 years working in high crime neighbourhoods. She was on the TV show ’60 Days In’ and spent 2 months as an undercover inmate. She also wrote a children's picture book called 'I Shook Up The World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali.'
LOV TIL Lincoln grew his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter - “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”
nWw7o TIL The University of Alabama is the number one employer in the state of Alabama. In 2023 they received $413 million in grants from the NIH alone.