Post * bgj0 — Curious Curator

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TIL its illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.

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bxPE TIL Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek the Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”.

7xpZ TIL the 1998 Jonesboro Middle School shooters who killed 5 and injured 10 were released at the age of 21 and immediately attempted to acquire firearms

E8pV TIL the happiest countries in the world also have the highest suicide rates.

JYdQv TIL of Sophie Scholl, a political activist who was executed for high treason after handing out anti-war leaflets in Nazi Germany

gMXPW TIL Quebec "unofficially" got rid of Slavery in 1798, 35 years before it was abolished, because the Chief of Justice couldn't find any laws to punish an escaped slave named Charlotte who refused to return to her master- so he set her free. Other slaves found out and started doing the same thing.