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TIL 70 percent of the movie Gravity is made up of just 17 shots

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awDAJ TIL Robert Downey Jr's father exposed him to drugs when he was six years old and he got addicted to them by the age of eight.
5YEg8 TIL of Violette Morris, a world-class athlete in many sports. A lesbian, she had a mastectomy 'in order to fit into a racing car more easily'. She lost her license (and her chance at the 1928 Olympics) because of her 'loose morals'. She was killed in 1944 by the French Resistance.
W8jB TIL the oldest known person to live, Jeanne Calment, both met Van Gogh and appeared in a movie in 1990.
nmmd TIL an idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below 3 years, while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between 7 to 12.
x65V1 Til there are bison-cattle hybrids called beefalo