Post * p1NA — Curious Curator

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TIL: Hacker, Kevin Mitnick, spent eight months in solitary confinement after law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to “start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.”

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vPVGR TIL about Porphyrios, a giant whale who used to harass and destroy Byzantine ships near Constantinople during VI century. Active for more than 50 years, nobody managed to catch him, not even emperor Justinian I.

xV09b TIL cockroach milk is four times as nutritious as cow’s milk.

e019b TIL an outlaw isn't just someone who breaks the law, but is a punishment given to someone where the law no longer protects you. If someone wants to rob, beat, or kill you, they absolutely can with no repercussions from the law as an outlaw is now someone "outside of the law."

KYYY4 TIL that there is still a legally prescribed version of meth called Desoxyn for children with ADHD or short-term weight loss

LQgpm TIL The tallest dam on earth, the Usoi Dam, is not man-made. The dam is a landslide from the 1911 Sarez earthquake that blocked the Murghab River in Tajikistan. In 2015 the dam survived a 7.2 magnitude earthquake with no signs of deterioration.