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Happy Beer Day!
On March 1st 1989 Icelanders were allowed to buy full-strength beer for the first time in decades. Beer had been outlawed in the country since 1915. Roger Protz has been looking into the history of prohibition in Iceland.
Photo: A bartender pouring beer. Credit: Getty Creative Stock/iStock.
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