Post * wN4J — Curious Curator

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TIL Yale researchers taught monkeys to use money, monkeys came up with prostitution and bank robbery

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E1d4o TIL that the first person to perform "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was Ricardo Montalban (AKA Khaaaaaan!)

PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.

GVD7 TIL Star Wars was originally about Mace Windu.

jN08v TIL Dr. Seuss used his full name, Theodore Geisel, until he was caught drinking alcohol in his college room when the consumption of alcohol was illegal in the U.S. He was forcefully resigned from working on the school magazine, but he still sneaked in his work under his middle name, Seuss.

awvpL TIL NASA never spent $1 Million to develop the space pen. The Fisher Pen company spent $1 million of its own money to make a zero-G pen, which NASA brought for about $6 per pen. The Soviets also switched to pens as they were safer than pencils.