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TIL Tim Roth passed on the role Of Snape In Harry Potter to be in Planet of the Apes

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pGMb TIL that there are more slaves today than ever before in history, despite it being illegal everywhere.
mxDKO TIL of the Metropolitan Sepulchre - A 19th century proposal to build a pyramid in London that would have covered 18 acres, had the capacity for 5 million bodies and at 94 stories and 1500 feet would have been taller than the Empire State Building!
awdmN TIL: Patch Adams only agreed to the 1999 film of his namesake because they promised to help build his hospital. None of the profits from the film was ever given to his foundation, and the film was heavily criticised by Patch Adams himself, saying: "I hate that movie."
oBKN7 TIL that Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia adopted 40 Armenian Orphans from a monastery in Jerusalem 1924 and trained them to play musical instruments becoming Ethiopia's first Official orchestra.
LQDyr TIL J.K. Simmons has been voicing the yellow M&M since 1996