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TIL that the dollar symbol has its origin in Spain

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wLOb7 TIL the largest lynching in America was of Italian Americans in New Orleans due to the police chief using a racial slur to identify his murderer, all accused were acquitted or suffered a mistrial and sent back to prison to await further charges only for it to be stormed by vigilantes that night.
x6M7b TIL that Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice Roosevelt was dubbed "Princess Alice" by the society press of New York.
6vEl TIL law enforcement and the entire concept of a ‘police force’ is a very new historical concept. Outside of private guards and community vigilantism, policing did not even exist until 1707 in Great Britain - and it was 1829 before police were established in London.
KOB9B TIL of the systematic destruction of the Armenian cemetery at Julfa. In response to charges from Armenia and various international organisations and despite overwhelming evidence of their involvement, the Azerbaijani government insisted that the cemetery and the monuments within had never existed.
d89eB TIL The German word for "panic buying" is "Hamsterkauf."