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TIL Gerard Butler was a week short of becoming a lawyer and instead moved to London to become an actor… presumably after watching Star Wars

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pjMG TIL that the French praised ‘Ratatouille’ for perfectly recreating the environment of a restaurant kitchen. One chef said, “When Colette teaches the young cook how you cut onions, how you cook vegetables in a pan, how you season everything — that’s it, that’s how we do it!”
KYr7a TIL while viewing a solar eclipse on 18 August 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen made an observation that led to the discovery of helium. It was the first time a chemical element was discovered on an extraterrestrial body before being found on the earth.
Z889Q TIL in 2013, Lufthansa offered to their Swedish customers the chance to live rent free in Berlin for a year if they legally changed their name to "Klaus Heidi". 42 Swedes did.
GG0g TIL NVIDIA digitally rendered the moon landing, which revealed why Buzz Aldrin seemed too brightly illuminated on the moon landing picture: he was illuminated by light reflected from the Moon’s surface and Armstrong’s spacesuit
wNQJ TIL an Austrian woman’s firestove exploded when she used a piece of wood that grew around a WWII grenade that was stuck in it