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TIL Uma Thurman was forced to do her own stunts and had a serious car accident on the set of Kill Bill, causing permanent neck and knee injuries. Miramax denied her of the footage unless she signed documents releasing them of any consequences. She refused. In 2018, Tarantino gave her the footage.

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Oo6lY TIL of Karl Schwarzschild who, in the same year Einstein introduced general relativity, provided the first exact mathematical solution to general relativity whilst on the front lines of World War I
O6Y TIL i learned that when Anne Hathaway was auditioning for “The Dark Knight Rises”, she thought she was auditioning for Harley Quinn
8P6K TIL that a Japanese scientist made a replica of Tokyo using oat flakes to represent population centers and bright light to represent mountains, water, and other obstacles on a dish. When he placed a living slime mold in the model, it created a network that resembled Tokyo’s rail system.
wL4M TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, could recall the contents of over 12,000 books. His IQ was 87.
5Y04p TIL Russia has 11 time zones