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TIL that Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman who murdered a federal judge.

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Lklwv TIL London is the largest urban forest in the world: with more than 8 million trees - about one for every Londoner - the capital of the UK is literally classified as a forest in its own right.
awlkb TIL Tim Burton's name was added to The Nightmare Before Christmas' title as a strategy to broaden marketing appeal. After a preview screening to a group of schoolchildren, Disney worried the film was too dark for kids. So, they had it released under a PG rating through distributor Touchstone Films.
D1yMj TIL that only two months after 9/11, on the 12th of November, an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, NYC, initially spawning concerns of another terror attack. The crashed killed all 260 people aboard, 5 people on the ground, and is the second deadliest plane accident on US soil.
mxowY TIL Barbara Bach who was Russian agent XXX the main Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, auditioned for Charlie's Angels prompting them to ask her manager if she could play an American. Bach was born in Queens, New York
DMpe TIL that Gene Wilder considers Tim Burton’s Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake to be an insult from Warner Brothers