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TIL that the 1,500 Irish Defence Forces members that played the army in Braveheart were promised weekends off, but the shooting often ran over. One weekend, Colonel McCorley ordered the men march off set. "Mel Gibson’s mouth dropped. He couldn’t say anything."

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