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TIL Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis, Vin Diesel and Nicolas Cage all turned down the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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eZjE TIL of “Sailor Jerry Collins”, a tattoo artist who cured his own skin cancer by tattooing prescription meds, meant to be taken internally, directly on to malignant areas.
M8kb TIL the top sumo referees carry a dagger, to symbolize killing themselves if they make a bad call
pZWQ TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”
9Y7RQ TIL WWE owner Vince McMahon fought "God" in a no holds barred match on PPV
aB89 TIL the “Solar storm of 1859” was so powerful that telegraphs continued to operate after being disconnected, auroras were seen in the tropics, and miners in the Rockies thought the sun had risen early.