Movie Directors Who Made a Cameo Appearance in Their Own Films

Lin Manuel Miranda

Best known for Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda brought his rap skills to How I Met Your Mother in the final season. He played a guy on a bus, named Gus, who rapped about Canada. Yeah, not exactly his Tony-worthy broadway show, but still interesting. As Miranda said to Marshall "I've just been handed a news flash/ The word Canada is unrhymeable/ It's easier to, I don't know/ Get drunk and try to climb a bull..."

The More You Know

Shakespeare's plays feature the word "love" about 10 times more than the word "hate."
The world's oldest operating library is in Morocco.
Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.