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TIL actor Woody Harrelson's father was a convicted hitman, who killed a federal judge as one of his victims.

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yV7ov TIL 37 is the most common number people choose when asked to think of a random number between 1 and 100 (according to the Stanford / MIT Jargon file)
KYEGR TIL that in the early Middle Ages the Scots, originating in Ireland, colonised what is now Scotland and replaced the native Britons and Picts.
kOexe TIL that the same chemical which gives beets their "earthy" taste is also partially responsible for the smell the occurs when rain falls after a long dry spell.
M740b TIL that a children's nurse inspired the Peanuts special "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?" Sylvia Cook suggested producing a film about cancer to Charles M. Schulz. She wanted to comfort and educate patients of hers who were too young to understand their condition. Cook also served as script advisor.
LQLMV TIL Potassium chloride, a salt substitute for food often mixed with ordinary table salt to form low sodium salt, is used as the final drug in the sequence of execution by lethal injection