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TIL Mel Gibson told Jim Caviezel “You'll never work in this town again” if he were to take the role of Jesus Christ in Passion of the Christ. He went through with the role and has found it difficult to find any gigs since.

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GLKg TIL that in the 1960s, Nichelle Nichols, the black actress that played Uhura in Star Trek, wanted to quit the show. MLK himself talked her out of quitting the role because he believed presenting a black woman working alongside white men would help further the goal of racial equality.
pNv4 TIL James Cameron sought Hollywood funding for the movie Titanic not because he wanted to make the movie, but because he “wanted to dive to the shipwreck.”
mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams
BgWy TIL that the character Prof. Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person, described as the “Napoleon of Crime”
v1loD TIL: The Tragically Hip song, "Fifty Mission Cap" is credited with single handedly reviving the memory of Toronto Maple Leaf's Defenceman Bill Barilko and is so important to the team that they have a copy of hand written lyrics in the player's lounge and use the song at nearly every home game.