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TIL that the film "Seven Years in Tibet" was shot primarily in Argentina

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w8jY TIL Shaq once promised his mother he would earn a college degree. He fulfilled that promise in 2000, earning his bachelor of arts in general studies. At the graduation ceremony, he told the crowd “now I can go and get a real job”.
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