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TIL baptizing people with beer had to be specifically condemned by the pope in the 13th c., as a place in Norway with a water shortage (but not a beer shortage) was using beer for the sacrament. All beer baptisms were declared invalid, and those who received them had to be baptized again with water.

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6Rym TIL A 22 year old was shot 6 times in the back in Sept. for carrying a fake katana (in an open carry state). Police claimed that he lunged at them which was later heavily disputed by video evidence, however they got off with no charges. No riots ensued and so it did not make national news.
eeAE TIL At the time of JFK’s death He was furious with the CIA about their funding the assassination of the South Vietnamese President and their plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, stating “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
78a7p TIL of Jazz kissa, a style of jazz clubs unique to Japan that thrived around the 1950s to the 1970s. Patrons would go to these clubs where jazz is played for dedicated listening rather than as background music. Silence is required and a "masuta" serves the customers drinks and DJ's the music set.
oZQL TIL the first assassination attempt on a US President happened today in 1835, thwarted by 2 jammed guns. Andrew Jackson beat the crap out of his failed assassin with the help of (The) Davy Crockett.
x665g TIL of Juliet Prowse, who was engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis, and was the first ever guest on The Muppet Show