TIL when Monica Bellucci was casted in Spectre as James Bond's love interest, it made her the oldest "Bond Girl" at the age of 50. The second is Honor Blackman, who was 39 when she played Pussy Galore. [source, comments]

TIL about Kimipuchi, a type of artificial egg invented by the Japanese conglomerate, Kewpie. These artificial eggs are used in premade convenience store bentos to mimic the texture of a half-cooked yolk and prevent salmonella poisoning from the use of actual eggs. [source, comments]

TIL the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t awarded in 1948 because the committee wanted to give it to Mahatma Gandhi — but he had been assassinated earlier that year.
On the grounds that “there was no suitable living candidate”. [source, comments]

TIL that decommissioned aircraft are now increasingly being sunk and transformed into artificial reefs, in an effort to boost tourism and restore the environment. Aircraft as large as the Airbus A300 have been sunk [source, comments]

TIL that Tom Cruise divorced each of his three wives (Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes) when they turned 33 years old, and each of his ex-wives is 11 years younger than the last. [source, comments]

TIL that Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, strongly condemned drug use and hated rock/metal even without “satanic” lyrics [source, comments]

TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely high demand, Cohn made them believe they were always in danger of cancelation so they wouldn't negotiate a better contract. [source, comments]

TIL the guy in the "Worst Person You Know" picture is Josep Maria García, a guy who works in a marketing agency in a small town in Spain and was unaware of his fame initially [source, comments]

TIL the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger in 1973. A choice so controversial two committee members resigned in protest. [source, comments]

TIL Chuck finney a billionaire donated all his wealth and died with a net worth of 0 [source, comments]

TIL, Lava lakes (pools of molten lava within a volcanic crater) are very rare. Fewer than 10 volcanoes have maintained persistent lava lakes in the past decade. [source, comments]

TIL that five U.S. Presidents (Thomas Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Lyndon Johnson) didn’t take their Presidential Oath on a Bible. [source, comments]

TIL a CT scan exposes you to about 100x the radiation of a chest x-ray, while a PET scan exposes you to about 250x as much. [source, comments]

TIL that many, many scammers are trafficking victims forced to work in "scam factories" to target innocent people against their will. [source, comments]

TIL that Marion Tinsley, the greatest checkers player of all time, only lost 7 games in 45 years, 2 of which were against a computer. After he retired, it was said that the world champion title would be “worthless as long as he was alive” [source, comments]

TIL that in 1935 Germany, 80% of prisoners held through protective custody in concentration camps were there for alleged homosexuality. [source, comments]

TIL a 28-year-old South Korean man died after playing Starcraft for nearly 50 hours straight with minimal food or sleep. [source, comments]

TIL Hitler took his inspiration from Georg Ritter von Schönerer, an Austrian far-right politician in the late 1800s, who was called führer and popularized Heil [source, comments]

TIL In 1983, New Order's "Blue Monday" became an international smash hit. However, the record label lost money on the single due to its extravagant design (die-cut and designed to look like a floppy disk). They justified the expense at the time because they didn't think the song would chart. [source, comments]

Today I learned that in Mormonism, the first Pharaoh of Egypt was literally named Pharaoh and his mother was named Egyptus. There is no basis for this in any other source. [source, comments]