Post * EgQD7 — Curious Curator

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TIL Mehmet Ali Ağca was an escaped murderer who fired four bullets at Pope John II in 1981. Two of the shots entered the Pope's torso but did not hit vital organs. Mehmet had already been convicted of murdering a Turkish Newspaper editor but had escaped after six months.

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ye9J TIL A ‘Republic’ places sovereignty in each individual person, whereas a 'Democracy’ is essentially a dictatorship of the Majority.

XP7r TIL that the Catholic Church does not support capitalism, libertarianism, or socialism, but instead a middle ground economic theory called Distributism. It promotes the widest possible distribution of the means of production.

e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"

a8VA0 TIL That Jonah Falcon, the man who claimed to have a penis that's 13.5 inches long, is a fraud.

QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"