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TIL Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings due to “family obligations.” Thank you, Nicolas Cage.

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78R4b TIL "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" was banned in Malaysia solely because of the title as "Morphin" was determined to be too easily confused with the drug "Morphine"
MMbb TIL a black man tried to integrate the University of Mississippi and not only was rejected, but sent to an insane asylum.
WPeL TIL: The original 1983 V miniseries was inspired by the 1935 novel It Couldn’t Happen Here but with American fascists replaced by an alien occupying force to make it easier to market.
dDeEK TIL about a "ghost boat" that disappeared in 2014 with 243 people aboard. No trace has ever been found.
XOrP TIL that Pablo Picasso, living in Nazi-occupied Paris, suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of his painting Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”