TIL the world’s oldest beer advertisement was on a Mesopotamian Stone Tablet dated approximately 4000 BC. It read “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion” and was accompanied by a “large breasted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand”
TIL Sweden had a racial purity programme until 1976. More than 60,000 people were sterilized. People could apply to have "problem families" in neighborhood sterilized.
TIL Gene Autry created “The Cowboy Code” in the 1950’s, a list of qualities every cowboy should take to heart. Included were “He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas” and being gentle to animals.
TIL Gene Autry created “The Cowboy Code” in the 1950’s, a list of qualities every cowboy should take to heart. Included were “He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas” and being gentle to animals.