The temperance movement and the Eighteenth Amendment. 1  In the United States an early wave of movements for state and local prohibition arose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and â30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and abolitionism.
TIL (or T.I.L.) typically is an abbreviation for Today I Learned when used on the web at sites like Reddit.com or Digg.com TIL may also mean Until, later. TIL may also stand for That is Lame.
The tilde is an operator that does something that youâd normally think wouldnât have any purpose. It is a unary operator that takes the expression to its right performs this small algorithm on it (where N is the expression to the right of the tilde): -(N+1). See below for some samples. 1