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TIL Christopher Columbus may have been jewish

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9YjwX TIL that Russell Crowe cornered and assaulted a TV producer after the BBC cut out his reading of a poem during his best actor award acceptance speech at the BAFTAs.
p8N6N TIL about Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy, an English nobleman executed by King Henry VIII, whose wonderfully repetitive title is eclipsed only by the name of his first wife, Dousabella Tempest. (Incidentally, Henry VIII also had courtiers called Richard Rich and William Fitzwilliam.)
5YE4k TIL of the chariot race sequence in Ben-Hur (1959): the set was the largest ever built at the time and took over a year and thousands of workers to build; the director's son, a stuntman, almost died; the extras rioted on camera; and the cars filming the race were slower than the horses
ADXon TIL that songwriter Esther Dean composed “S&M” for Rihanna, then was later cast as Cynthia Rose in the Pitch Perfect movies. This means in the “riff-off” scene in the first movie, Esther got to sing her own song, but as a completely different person. Full circle.
p8xGQ TIL the origins for the nursery rhyme "Rub a dub dub" was actually about shaming otherwise resectable people for going to peep shows.