Post * X0Bdk — Curious Curator

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TIL that Phil Hartman was one of the writers on the script for Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

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kAgB TIL R. Lee Ermey, best known as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, was the first retiree in the history of the Marines to be promoted.

4gbX TIL: In 2011 The International Sperm Bank quit accepting donations by red heads

pBv8 TIL that, contrary to decades of hearing “you know, the giant panda ISN’T really a bear,” that the giant panda is actually a bear.

6EneQ TIL that the oldest person ever in the world was Jeanne Louise Calment, who was born on February 21, 1875 in Arles, France. She died on August 4, 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days old.

Am4a TIL that famous physicist Richard Feynman’s second wife divorced him because he would do calculus “while lying in bed at night.”