■ In 2010, a group of 15 monkeys escaped from a Japanese research institute by using trees to catapult themselves over a 17-foot-high electrical fence.
■ Potato aphids will not mate if they detect a drop in air pressure.
■ Casting for Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” was partly done by Jaki Brown, and Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” was cast by Leah Daniels-Butler.
■ It would only cost you in the neighbo…