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TIL that the statue of Lady Justice at the courthouse in Virginia City Nevada USA does not have a blindfold on. This was done to let people know that Justice was in fact "Not Blind".

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OG8wg TIL that public holidays in Greece include the "Day of the No,'" which honors Greece's refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers in 1940
kOMxm TIL the disco song “freak out”, was originally titled “Fuck Off”
epy8g TIL the panic of 1873 triggered an economic depression until 1877 in the USA and was known as the Great Depression until the events of 1929 set a new standard. The depression also occurred in Europe and started 2 decades of stagflation in Britain.
BRLW TIL Mongol successfully invaded Russia in the winter
PYOrE TIL of Catherine Yasinchuk, a Ukrainian woman who was wrongly institutionalized for 48 years in a Philadelphia asylum because she did not speak English and no one understood her. She’d come to the USA alone at the age of 15, and suffered a nervous breakdown after losing her husband and baby.