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TIL machines can not mimic handmade crochet items due to the intricate patterns and weaves involved

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Z8rop TIL the Adamites were a 2nd century Christian sect that sought to re-create the innocence of the Garden of Eden. To this end they called their church “Paradise”, practiced nudism, rejected marriage and claimed they could do whatever they wanted because they had no knowledge of good/evil.
5QE8 TIL Jimmy Carter de-regulated the beer market making it possible for craft brew
ADrN7 TIL In 1980, the New York Yankees traded player Brad Gulden to the Seattle Mariners for "a player to be named later." In 1981, the Mariners traded Brad Gulden back as the player to be named.
xykB TIL the ‘Type A and Type B personalities’ were conceived from studies that sought to establish a link between proactive personalities and heart disease. Tobacco companies funded the studies & used them to suggest cigarettes only seemed to cause heart disease because smokers were such high achievers
bNGa TIL Einstein wasn’t an atheist but believed in the God of Spinoza