Post * rkKd — Curious Curator

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TIL in the Netherlands heroin addicts are given free heroin at clinics three times a day. Some addicts complain that the government makes being an addict too easy for an individual, but overall heroin addiction has decreased.

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M7xLa TIL that Spain cheated in the Paralympics, sending multiple players without disabilities to the games

d8K1r TIL that during the filming of Rocky IV Sylvester Stallone was hit so hard by Dolph Lundgren, he spent 8 days within intensive care. The injuries he sustained are usually caused by steering wheel trauma to the chest in car accidents. Stallone said "in a sense I was hit by a 'streetcar named drago'"

697NY TIL in 1997, at a youth basketball camp, Orlando Magic player Dennis Scott randomly told children not to ask for his autograph but "ask me about the rage that's inside of me". Scott was in the midst of new contract negotiations at that time; he was eventually traded to the Dallas Mavericks.

9YxA6 TIL James Howard. WW2 P-51 Mustang fighter pilot who defended his bombers, alone, against 30 Luftwaffe planes, even diving on them when he'd run out of ammunition, until they were driven away.

4kNKw TIL that the Block of Marble which later turned into the Statue of David by Michelangelo, had a past of Rejection by other sculptors before its making.