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TIL that Jimmy Carter de-regulated the beer market in 1979, opening back up to craft brewers in USA.

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YQOG TIL that in the 16th century, Christians called the Anabaptists did not partake in infant baptism, instead believing that only free-willed adults could decide for themselves to be baptized. They were persecuted and killed.
4VVa TIL that there’s a word for the day after tomorrow: overmorrow.
9EBB TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the crotch which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game back from the DL, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those responsible for the PA system to have Beltré’s at-bat intro music be the waltz from The Nutcracker Suite
D1AKP TIL future U.S. President Franklin Pierce grew homesick while at school in another town and walked 12 miles (19 km) back to his home. His father fed him dinner, drove him part of the distance back to school, then ordered him to walk the rest of the way in a thunderstorm.
9YZgr TIL that Homework was considered hugely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900s, when physicians crusaded against it, in 1901, California even banned homework for anyone under the age of 15