What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Deesse23]

'Tiffany' would be a perfectly appropriate name for a character in historical or fantasy fiction. It is a nickname for 'Theophania' and dates from the 12th century.

Boru

Theophanu, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, 10th century
Burial place: Cologne

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Tiffany' would be a perfectly appropriate name for a character in historical or fantasy fiction. It is a nickname for 'Theophania' and dates from the 12th century.

Boru

Theophanu, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, 10th century
Burial place: Cologne

Yes, 'Theophania/Theophanu' pre-dates the 12th century, but the first found instance of the short form 'Tiffany' is from the 12th - Britain and (I think) Normandy.

Boru

[Angrboda]

When it comes to unique beverages, we take the cake here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Because we're the ONLY state that still sells this drink. All 49 other states have gotten rid of it. Heck, even the conservative state of Utah got rid of its requirement to sell this stuff back in 2020.

The mystery beverage I'm talking about is something called 3.2 beer-- beer that has an alcohol-by-volume percentage of only 3.2-- well below the alcohol content contained in most beers these days. "3.2 Beer" or "Near Beer," as it's jokingly been referred to over the years, is the only beer that's still legal for grocery and convenience stores to sell here in Minnesota.

So how did 3.2 beer even become a thing? According to this TwinCities.com story, it dates back to Prohibition-- when selling and possessing any alcohol was illegal. Minnesota's legislature tried to get around the federal law by passing its own state law that said any beverage with an alcohol percentage of 3.2 or lower wasn't really an alcoholic beverage-- and thus could still be legally sold.


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[polymath257]

When it comes to unique beverages, we take the cake here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Because we're the ONLY state that still sells this drink.  All 49 other states have gotten rid of it. Heck, even the conservative state of Utah got rid of its requirement to sell this stuff back in 2020.

The mystery beverage I'm talking about is something called 3.2 beer-- beer that has an alcohol-by-volume percentage of only 3.2-- well below the alcohol content contained in most beers these days. "3.2 Beer" or "Near Beer," as it's jokingly been referred to over the years, is the only beer that's still legal for grocery and convenience stores to sell here in Minnesota.

So how did 3.2 beer even become a thing? According to this TwinCities.com story, it dates back to Prohibition-- when selling and possessing any alcohol was illegal. Minnesota's legislature tried to get around the federal law by passing its own state law that said any beverage with an alcohol percentage of 3.2 or lower wasn't really an alcoholic beverage-- and thus could still be legally sold.


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When I went to college, 3.2 beer was the only alcoholic beverage allowed in bars in Kansas.

Later, they legalized 'liquor by the drink', but only for members of clubs. of course, all the bars immediately became 'clubs' and added members at the door.

[Anomalocaris]

When it comes to unique beverages, we take the cake here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Because we're the ONLY state that still sells this drink.  All 49 other states have gotten rid of it. Heck, even the conservative state of Utah got rid of its requirement to sell this stuff back in 2020.

The mystery beverage I'm talking about is something called 3.2 beer-- beer that has an alcohol-by-volume percentage of only 3.2-- well below the alcohol content contained in most beers these days. "3.2 Beer" or "Near Beer," as it's jokingly been referred to over the years, is the only beer that's still legal for grocery and convenience stores to sell here in Minnesota.

So how did 3.2 beer even become a thing? According to this TwinCities.com story, it dates back to Prohibition-- when selling and possessing any alcohol was illegal. Minnesota's legislature tried to get around the federal law by passing its own state law that said any beverage with an alcohol percentage of 3.2 or lower wasn't really an alcoholic beverage-- and thus could still be legally sold.


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3.2 remains the standard alcohol content of the beer supplied by the US armed forces.

[Fake Messiah]

There is a Shining Cuckoo Clock

[Fake Messiah]

[Rev. Rye]

Some people are seriously dumb enough, in this day and age, to call the police... on planets

'Calling 911 on stars': California sheriff asks residents to stop reporting planets in sky

MODESTO, Calif. - Two shiny dots in the sky Wednesday night apparently startled some residents in California's Central Valley.

The Stanislaus County sheriff took to Facebook Thursday to tell people they shouldn't call 911 as NASA confirmed the stars were in fact Jupiter and Venus.

"There is no reason to report this," the sheriff said, adding they received multiple calls to dispatch.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/calling-911-on...ets-in-sky

I wish I was making this up.

[pgrimes15]

After helping my daughter with homework today, we learned what a rhombus and a parallelogram is and when one is the same as the other and when it's not.

When it's a square ?

[Fake Messiah]

There is an anus/ colon hotel in Belgium. I guess you feel shitty inside.