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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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6VkX TIL Orangutangs have been held captive & used as sex slaves - “We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body….If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, & start gyrating and going through the motions”
da1E TIL the actors who portrayed the king and queen in “Coming to America” were the same actors that play the king and queen in “The Lion King” (James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair)
p8OKZ TIL: In the movie Rampage, when Dwayne Johnson signs his character's name (Davis Okoye) to George the Gorilla, it's actually American Sign Language for 'Rock'.
dDJd8 TIL that after returning from the Moon in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined in a Mobile Quarantine Facility for 21 days to prevent any potential contamination from unknown lunar pathogens.
N70yE TIL The asterisk derives from the two thousand year old character called the asteriskos, ※, used when proofreading poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.