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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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E16b7 TIL about 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins who assisted with the evacuation of patients in WWII. Her plane was forced to make an emergency landing and a patient's trachea was severed by debris. Mary went full MacGyver and managed to keep the man alive with found items for 19 hrs until help arrived.
nWxPY TIL Bananas are curved because they grow against the pull of gravity. They begin growing downwards, but as they get larger, they grow upwards to catch more sun, resulting in a curved shape.
aw7d0 TIL that an unnamed wealthy property owner regularly buys large mansions just to watch them deteriorate.
R7NY4 TIL that in the early twentieth century, film reels were often destroyed after their theatrical release, either by accident due to the use of flammable silver nitrate or on purpose in order to recover the silver contained in the film. As a result, an estimated 75-90% of all silent films are lost.
b6XD4 TIL in Hautefaye, France, on August 16, 1870, local nobleman and city councilmember Alain de Monéys, was lynched by a local crowd mistaking him for a Prussian