random factoid of the day

while i'm not particularly interested in the new charlie and the chocolate factory with johnnie depp, i did learn a fun factoid.

FACT: lots of candy comes with nuts. and in the movie willy wonka employs a room of squirrels that sit on stools, filtering out "bad nuts," deshelling the good ones, and dropping them on a conveyer belt.

FACToid: the squirrels are REAL! apparently some extremely patient freak-of-nature took a year and a half training real squirrels to do the trick. i might have to see this.