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TIL Rowan Atkinson (Mr.Bean) has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering

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XELQQ TIL if a hermit crab finds a bigger shell, it tries it on for size and If it’s too big, it waits as other crabs try it on. The crabs begin to form a chain, according to size, so when a crab comes along that fits the shell, all the crabs can take over the next largest shell and get new homes.
N7Z8N TIL that Leonard Nimoy broke into the music scene in the late 60's. One of his most popular songs was about Bilbo Baggins.
5veR TIL Jeff Bridges said of working on Iron Man, “They had no script, man. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say. We would go into our trailer and call up writers on the phone, ‘You got any ideas?’”
AD887 TIL Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo confused the island with the city of Mogadishu and then misspelled the name in his writings.
PvRe TIL that James Smith, husband of Moira, an NYPD officer who died saving people in the towers on 9/11 and was awarded “Woman Of The Year” by Glamour, returned the award after seeing it be given to Caitlyn Jenner, stating “Is this the best you could do?”