› added 9 months ago

27

TIL of the various roles Sean Connery turned down, they included Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, John Hammond in Jurassic Park, Morpheus in The Matrix, Dumbledore in Harry Potter, and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. Of the Hannibal part in particular, Connery felt it was too "disgusting."

Read more faroutmagazine.co.uk

via reddit.com

rR9Ko TIL that in India's Padmanabha temple, there's an 800 kg (1,800 lb) hoard of gold coins dating to around 200 B.C, each coin priced at over ₹2.7 crore (US$380,000) in one vault. The rest 6 vaults haven't yet been opened and are believed to have Gold and diamonds worth over trillion dollars.
DQEdJ TIL Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie suffered and died from a hereditary disease, Huntingtons Disease that his mother also died from. His oldest two daughters died from it and son Arlo Guthrie refused to be tested but hasn't shown symptoms.
jNjWE TIL that the Berlin Wall was torn down by mistake. East Germany’s new spokesman, Günter Schabowski, accidentally implied the wall would be taken down, which caused citizens to rush the wall. The East German government decided it would be worse to try to stop them, and allowed the wall to come down.
8eJYX TIL While scouting locations for “You Only Live Twice”, the production team missed a fatal flight to attend a ninja demonstration.
16MO7 TIL during the Middle Ages, two-phase or 'biphasic' sleep is a common practice; a first sleep and second sleep with a period of wakefulness in between (known as "the watch") where people do chores, have sex, pray, and socialise.