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TIL the movie "Gravity" was more expensive than the India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan with the budget for this mission only being $74 million

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JJpm TIL during initial showings of a scene in the 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” where a character fires a gun straight at the camera, it is said audience members ducked and put their fingers in their ears, despite the film being silent; some are even said to have fired back at the screen.
Ne61 TIL That as a child Ringo Starr had such poor health he was committed to a sanatorium for two years. When he got out at age 13, he was so far behind in school that he never went back.
N74m6 TIL C&P: Thomas Jefferson used a razor to cut passages from the New Testament and literally pasted them together into what is now known as the Jefferson Bible, currently on display at the Smithsonian. He felt the focus should be on Jesus’ life and moral teachings, not inexplicable miracles
9wwWM TIL that researchers believe the area around two cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan is the origin of the plague
KYldQ TIL Malcolm Brenner claims to have had sex with a female dolphin named Dolly in the 1970s, and believes it was consensual.