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TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis was so convincing as a killer in "Gangs of New York," the mom of his 10 year old co-star for "There Will Be Blood" saw the movie, and didn't want her son acting alongside him anymore. The studio sent her "The Age of Innocence" to reassure her Day-Lewis wasn't actually bad.

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xbrD TIL The largest Blue Marlin ever caught on rod and reel weighed 1,800 lbs, and inside it’s belly they found a Yellowfin Tuna that weighed over 155 lbs.
1aPeX TIL about PanAm 6039, a commercial "flying boat" that went the long way from San Francisco to New York, nearly circumnavigating the globe, in order to get home following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941
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