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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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4Xn8o TIL Mt. Everest was involuntarily named after George Everest, the surveyor-general of India. Andrew Waugh hoped to honor his predessor. When Everest found out, he hated the idea because the Sherpa people couldn't pronounce his name, and it didn't translate to Hindi. Waugh did it anyway.
y8ma TIL that General Eisenhower, among other WW2 military leaders, thought the atomic bomb to be completely unnecessary and excessively cruel.
x96b TIL that in China, 40% of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58% of the engineering workforce.
NEe TIL the governor of Maine is against state marriage and would prefer civil unions for homosexual and heterosexual couples alike
KWba TIL: When Lincoln’s coffin was opened in 1901, his body and clothes were perfectly preserved.