› added 3 years ago

101

TIL the role of Hannibal Lecter was turned down by Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro & others. Silence of the Lambs would go on to be the 3rd film in history to win all "Big 5" Academy Awards & upon release in 1991 on VHS, became the most rented film in the United States.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9YokG TIL there is a fish called the Minipizza Batfish. It’s flat and round like a miniature pizza.
OGod4 TIL that the current Australian Government under "Scott Morrison" has the longest list of corruption allegations in Australian History
Kk84 TIL that at least 60 wealthy Osage Indians where murdered in the 1920s for the oil rich land they owned.
WkNZY TIL that Doctor Min Chiu Li was fired from the NIH in the 1950s because he gave chemotherapy to patients even after their tumors appeared to be gone. After firing him, the NIH discovered the long-term survival rates for his patients were far superior to conventional treatments.
xVgED TIL that Sun isn't center of the solar system and actually orbits the real center - all objects in our system (especially Jupiter) influence the barycenter which planets and sun orbits.