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TIL that Gerard Butler's Irish accent in P.S. I Love You was so bad that he later apologized to Ireland for it.
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TIL The phrase "back to square one" originates in the game of snakes/chutes and ladders
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TIL that shards of obsidian, or volcanic glass, can be refined to have a cutting edge only 3 nanometers thick. This is over 1300 times thinner than some scalpels.
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TIL Chevron operates a couple of gas stations under the name "Standard" since they own the trademark for Standard Oil and they have to use it
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TIL that during WWII, French-Moroccan soldiers kidnapped, defiled and/or killed 2,000 - 60,000 Italian female civilians in what is considered one of the worst war crimes of the war