Post * BdDe — Curious Curator

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TIL that not only can monkeys be trained to use money, they will use it rationally — and buy sex for it, too.

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B4Je TIL that while he was writing the score for The Last Samurai, Hans Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was very limited even after doing extensive research. When he took what he had written to Japan for feedback he was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music.

gKB8 TIL that the Sahara desert is vastly expanding. 12 African nations have banded together pledging to build a 9 mile wide band of trees, that will stretch across Africa (4,750 miles), called “the Green Wall,” to halt its expansion.

6wGw TIL that the Grateful Dead had their own chemist who would tour with them, and supply them with LSD

GAveJ TIL that British military jets were used to bomb a stricken oil tanker in 1967 to burn the oil before it came to shore

baM7 TIL the 1981 sex comedy Porky’s is the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time with slightly over $111 million