Today I Learned …

Actor Kit Harington (who played Jon Snow in the TV series Game of Thrones) is a descendant of Robert Catesby, one of the Gunpowder Plot leaders who tried unsuccessfully to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. Harington actually played Catesby in the British TV series Gunpowder. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Beyond the Bizarre)