Post * vPEE7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Pornhub has their own record label called Pornhub Records. Under that record label they have released two albums, a valentines day album in 2019 and most recently XXXmas, a Christmas album released in December 2020.

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Z8RVa TIL Of Orion P. Howe, a 14-year old drummer boy who received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War for volunteering to supply ammunition under heavy fire. He experienced 14 battles, and after the war he joined the Naval Academy because he was still too young for West Point.

5VlED TIL girls from China's one-child policy era were found with needles in their brains, inserted into their soft skulls as infants by family members who wanted boys instead of girls

6EayY TIL that historically, polio was not widely fatal. 72% of all infections were asymptomatic; 24% resulted in mild illness; 1-5% resulted in more serious but short-term symptoms. But polio was still feared, due to the <1% of cases that led to permanent paralysis and death in a further 5-30% of them.

5YQBp TIL Tyrannosaurus rex was originally thought to have walked fully upright like a kangaroo, and was posed this way in numerous books and movies until the 1970s. Jurassic Park helped present a revised depiction of its posture to the public.

kOg85 TIL that the company formed by the Beatles to handle their wealth was mismanaged by them and exploited by their employees who purchased drugs and alcohol, lunched at expensive restaurants, and made regularly international calls, and lent money to people never to be seen again.