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TIL: in 1978 the supreme Court changed the credit card industry by erasing state laws that limit interest rates.

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d815j TIL: In 1918, Iowa Governor William F. Harding signed a proclamation banning all languages other than English for public conversation, education, speeches, or church services. Some churches had to close and people were fined for speaking German on the phone.
pOPA TIL Eric II, King of Denmark was known as Eric the Memorable. No one remembers why
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