› added 10 years ago

64

TIL Nicholas Cage was offered the role of Aragon in the first Lord of the Rings film but turned it down due to ‘family obligations’

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kO95e TIL South Korea sells "mini studying rooms" for your home.
GANJ5 TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"
JYZ1B TIL while Sharon was giving up, sick in bed with cancer, Ozzy asked Robin Williams to visit her. He hopped in her sick bed randomly and apparently her family went from crying to peeing themselves laughing in a second. She loved it and went from giving up to chemo the next day.
J1Avj TIL that Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water. So, it could float in a bathtub if such a colossal thing existed.
m1vv TIL after WWII, a group of Jewish avengers called Nokmim hunted down and executed Nazis. One Gestapo officer was killed with a kerosene injection while at the hospital for surgery.