Post * Yk7W — Curious Curator

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TIL the monkeys in Community, Night at the Museum, The Hangover Part II and Doctor Dolittle are all played by the same capuchin monkey named Crystal.

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NXgm8 TIL that 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in the US is foreign-born, and the biggest demographic shift toward entrepreneurship since 1996 has occurred in people aged 55 to 64 and the biggest decline has occurred in people aged 20-34.

wLKX1 TIL that in 1944 Dutch Resistance members dressed as German SD (intelligence agents) went into Leeuwarden prison, and walked out with 39 prisoners, and all vanished into the city. No shots were fired, and the Germans never caught anyone.

R7JRQ TIL the Dwarves in Middle Earth were created by an impatient Angel who wanted to have children of his own and teach them his crafts. Eru Ilúvatar (God) and creator of the Elves and Men was not pleased by this disobedience, but forgave his son and then adopted the Dwarves, allowing them to exist.

olg7 TIL Steve Wozniak was so good at Tetris that Nintendo Power stopped accepting his high scores, so he submitted them with his name spelled backwards

JP1Q TIL Anthony Hopkins Was Such A Bad Alcoholic That He Once Woke Up In Arizona With No Memory Of How He Arrived…