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TIL President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home for personal or family use. Opening the door for today’s craft beer brewers.

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X8XP TIL first published in 1993, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world.
XlaX TIL that pro wrestler Mick Foley (who fought in the WWE as Mankind) had his ear ripped off during a match, but didn’t stop the fight. Afterwards, given the choice of getting the ear reattached and fighting another event, he chose to fight in another event
oBXrL TIL that a few years a couple in Bosnia discovered that they were cheating on each other, with each other. They had been chatting with one another on an online chat-room, without realizing that they were in fact speaking to their spouse.
pMRO TIL the leaders of a 1977 miners strike in Communist Romania were given 5 minute chest x-rays after the strike was over to ensure they would develop cancer.
VB1r0 TIL about the woman who could smell Parkinson’s and that certain diseases have distinctive odours