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TIL During the Spanish Inquisition there was a popular phrase “it is the goods that are the heretics”, meaning it was widely recognized to be about money, not faith.

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vPa7j TIL of Benjamin Lay who lived in Philadelphia in the 18th century. He was four feet tall, a hunchback, and lived in a cave. He created his own clothes to boycott the slave-labor industry and would not wear or eat anything made from the loss of animal life or by slave labor.
XP7r TIL that the Catholic Church does not support capitalism, libertarianism, or socialism, but instead a middle ground economic theory called Distributism. It promotes the widest possible distribution of the means of production.
XE9dj TIL that catching a snake requires more patience than I have
VMKRD TIL that even though the 21st Amendment ended alcohol prohibition in the US in 1933, the State of Mississippi enforced the law until 1966 and even today, 32 counties are "dry." Cities in some of those counties do sell some alcohol but it still remains entirely prohibited in 8 counties.
69vvX TIL India has a law that grants patents for existing drugs if the current drug is too expensive.