Post * 0vYA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Tommy Chong was the cell mate of Jordan Belfort (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) and encouraged Belfort to publish his autobiography.

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5Y7MB TIL in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", in newspaper reports about the fraudulent "winner" of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay, the man pictured is real-life Nazi Martin Bormann; the joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.

VMAbZ TIL that Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. Scientists at Emory University have named this gene associated with memory and learning the "Homer Simpson gene"

PYxdJ TIL Ocho de Plata, the Spanish Dollar, was the first legal tender in the United States until the Coinage Act of 1857. In fact, equity shares were still quoted in eighths of a dollar until 2001; this was a legacy from the coin’s divisibility by 8, since each Spanish Dollar was worth 8 reales.

OG0M6 TIL Carrie Fisher was only 20 years old when the original Star Wars was released in 1977.

loD5N TIL about A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down, due a the pacemaker getting disconnected. Everytime she got upright or lie down she would go unconscious.