Post * KYLL6 — Curious Curator

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TIL The dog that portrayed Spuds MacKenzie was a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye.

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BrOOk TIL Ming Dynasty eunuchs and courtesans in the Ming Dynasty formed a distinctive form of marriage in a secretive way. Although Ming eunuchs were incapable of bearing children, they were equally eager to have a family.

wnl8 TIL that J.K. Rowling was asked to use her initials instead of her full name (Joanne Rowling) because her publishers were worried that boys wouldn’t want to read a book written by a woman

4NXo TIL That there were still Mammoths alive on Earth as late as 2000 BC. The same time as the Pyramids were being built.

wLWQ6 TIL that a hurricane hit Hawaii when Jurrasic Park was filming. The sets were destroyed and the cast and crew were stranded in a leaking hotel ballroom. Steven Spielberg played cards with the kids for hours and told them stories to distract them. Real footages of the hurricane were added to the film

EgG4d TIL that McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world. with roughly 5000 happy meal sold every minute which translates to 1.5 billion toys a year