Post * dDeM8 — Curious Curator

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TIL: In some US states, public urination is enough to get you onto the sex offender registry. Furthermore, 25% of of registrants are juveniles/minors, and children as young as 9 have been placed on the list.

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j6wKE TIL The Mongolian army that attacked Baghdad in 1258 (200-800k dead) included Chinese artillery specialists, Persian/Turkic auxiliaries, Franks from Antioch, Armenian/Georgian allies, and Christian Han Chinese generals. They also defeated the Assassins and killed their Grandmaster on the way there.

grO9D TIL the guys from Milli Vanilli (Rob & Fab) as well as the original singers were all misled by their record producer in the lip-sync scandal and are the ones that brought it to the press. Rob & Fab were upset they wouldn't let them sing, and the original singers were upset they weren't the stars.

woyYW TIL about Jess Larochelle, a Canadian war hero. Despite sustaining severe injuries, including a concussion, broken back, neck, detached retina, and blown eardrum, confronted and forced the retreat of 40 Taliban fighters. There is a campaign to upgrade his war decoration to a Victoria Cross.

AMRw TIL that in 1983 the Russians shot down Korean Airlines flight 007, killing all 269 people on board, including a U.S. Congressman

e0844 TIL that the most expensive medicinal drug ever is Zolgensma (produced by Novartis), which costs $2.125 million for a single dose. The drug is a gene therapy, taken as a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disorder (about 30 babies are born each month with the disease)