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TIL that blasphemy was still a crime in the United Kingdom until 2008.

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ejYg TIL There’s a prison in Finland where the only thing keeping the inmates in is a yellow picket fence
wLpLJ TIL On July 21, 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War, known in the North as the First Battle of Bull Run and in the South as the Battle of First Manassas, also earned the nickname the “Picnic Battle” because spectators showed up with sandwiches and opera glasses to watch the battle
D1ZpJ TIL socialist Victor Berger was indicted/convicted under the Espionage Act. Despite this he was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate and returned to Congress in 1918. The House disqualified him; Berger ran in a special election and won again (eventually the Supreme Court overturned his conviction)