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The world's first mental health hospital was built in Baghdad, Iraq in 705 AD. While mental health patients were being condemned, punished, and even burned in Europe, 8th and 9th century mental health patients in Iraq, Egypt, and Syria were given more proper hospitalization and treatment.

The Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means "8th month", November means "9th month", and December means "10th month."

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1. Russia has eight public holidays including the New Year, Christmas (January 7th), Defender of the Fatherland Day (Feb 23rd), International Women's Day (March 8th), National Flag Day (Aug. 22nd), Spring and Labour Day, Victory Day (May 9th), Russia Day (June 12th), and Unity Day (November 4th).

2. The months September-December are named for their former numerical positions in the Roman Calender. Sept (7th), Oct (8th), Nov (9th), Dec (10th).

3. The Nofx song August 8th should have been called August 9th as a reference to Jerry Garcias death but Fat Mike got the date wrong

4. Asphalt is actually a very very slow moving liquid. The university of Queensland has been running the pitch drop experiment for almost 100 years. Over a 13 year period the 9th drop finally collided with the 8th.

5. American Pharoah's Sperm is now the 9th most expensive substance on Earth at $1500 per ml with an average horse ejaculate of 100ml. LSD is 8th at $3000 per ml.

6. September, October, November, and December were the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months (as the prefixes suggest), before the Romans added January and February to the beginning of the year, putting things out of order.

7. Seagulls regularly appear at Oracle Park during the 8th and 9th innings of Giants games and help clean the stadium after games

8. There is a pitch drop experiment which were started in 1927 and it's still being performed. The 8th drop fell on November 2000, the 9th drop fell on April 2014.

9. September, October, November and December were named as such because they were the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the Roman calendar respectively.

10. The VE day is May 8th and Soviet V-Day is May 9th because Associated Press broke a news embargo

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About Baker v. Nelson, a Minnesota Supreme Court case in 1971. The plaintiffs in it argued that the US Constitution provides a right to same-sex marriage through the 1st, 8th, 9th, and 14th Amendments. They lost their case by a unanimous margin but this ruling was overturned by SCOTUS in 2015.

The months SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, and DECember used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months until Julius Ceaser and Augustus came into power and added the months July and August. - source

The 9th thru 12th months have names that mean 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th.. septem seven; octo eight; novem nine; dec ten - source

September, October, November, and December used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months of the year, as their prefixes would logically suggest.

The 4th derivative of a displacement function is sometimes referred to as 'snap'. The more rarely used 5th and 6th derivatives, likewise, are known as 'crackle' and 'pop'. Finally, the basically never used 7th and 8th, 9th, and 10th are relegated to 'lock', 'drop', 'shot', and 'put'. - source

September, October, November, and December were once the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months