Post * a8Lx0 — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1945, at 59 years old, Albert Stevens was misdiagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, and as a result was secretly injected with 131 kBq (3.55 μCi) of Plutonium as part of a human experimentation project by Joseph Gilbert Hamilton. It was later discovered the "cancer" was an inflamed ulcer.

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JYQNm TIL of Sisamnes, a corrupt judge in the Persian Empire (525 BC). After accepting a bribe, the king had him arrested and skinned alive. His skin was then used to cover the seat from which judgments were made. His own son 'Otanes' then replaced him as judge.

R4Dw TIL Emma Stone, an Actress, gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song “Hollywood”, to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. Also, Stone’s low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of frequent screaming as an infant

0wGZA TIL that due to alcohol's faster evaporation rate, the famous Drinking Bird Toy will eagerly drink whiskey twice as fast as water.

m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.

Lk55d TIL that Chicken wings used to be considered junk meat parts, and were tossed out. Then, in 1964, a restaurant in Buffalo, NY decided to cook and serve them. Today there is a shortage of chicken wings worldwide, which has caused prices to go up.