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TIL that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan installed an 11 meter (36 ft) tall marble statue of a middle finger directly in front of the Milan Stock exchange as a clear message to Italy's CEOs and Bankers

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ne6NB TIL that Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner were all offered and passed on the role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption—Hanks instead chose Forrest Gump, and Costner chose Waterworld, while Cruise declined to work for the first time director Frank Darabont.
GrOJ TIL the irish Peter O'Connor at the flag-raising ceremony in the 1906 olympics, in protest at the flying of the Union Flag for his second place, scaled a flagpole in the middle of the field and waved the Irish flag, while the pole was guarded by Irish and American athletes and supporters.
4kbB5 TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.
kolE TIL That Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and chemist, not only coined the term, “radioactivity”, she was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
1PLd TIL Johann Tetzel, an indulgence salesman in Martin Luther’s time, was asked if an indulgence could be purchased for future sins. When he said yes, he was later beaten and robbed by the buyer, who said the act was the future sin in question.