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TIL the state of Mississippi did not repeal Prohibition until 1966.

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YBaG TIL ancient Nubian mummies were found to have the modern antibiotic Tetracycline in their bones. They got it from beer.
vNxL TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD in Roman Syria that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
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