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TIL Jonah Hill agreed to be paid only $60,000 for his role in The Wolf of Wall Street that took 7 months to film, because he really wanted that specific part in the movie.

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YXn7 TIL that Luxembourg’s education system is trilingual: the first years of primary school are in Luxembourgish, before changing to German, while in secondary school, the language of instruction changes to French.
p8nLb TIL When Michael Collins remained in the lunar module, he was in Orbit on the "other" side of the moon. He was cut off from all radio contact, the most alone any human has ever been.
BAnx TIL The “90-Mile Straight” across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain is not the longest straight road in the world. That honor belongs to Highway 10, located in Saudi Arabia, which runs due East for 140 miles.
d8PD8 TIL that Apple doesn't let villains use iPhones in the movies????
YnE7 TIL one of the reasons marijuana is not legal today is because cotton growers in the 30’s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition, even though it’s not chemically addictive