Post * E1y0P — Curious Curator

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TIL David Hasselhoff's body in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie during the escape scene was a 12 foot-long animatronic torso of himself.

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WklmA TIL that “The Bone Wars,” a fierce rivalry in the 19th century between two paleontologists involving bribery, fraud, and theft, concluded with one of the scientists donating his brain in hope that it would be bigger than that of his rival.

Bggre TIL that the Shawnigan Cataractes derive their name from Shawnigan Falls, a nearby waterfall, as Cataracte is French for cataract as in a waterfall.

1apd TIL “Modern biologists have reaffirmed the role of sexual selection in the evolution of beards, concluding that there is evidence that a preponderance of females finds mates with beards more attractive than mates without beards.”

groRW TIL that there was a restaurant on The Titanic, provided for first class passengers, who wanted to avoid dining with other first class passengers.

xVAX0 TIL Robert Downey Junior went blackface for most of Tropic Thunder, but the movie was mostly criticised by Disability advocates for the alleged offensive treatment of individuals with mental disabilities throughout the film.