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

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yQ56a TIL of Paricutín. A volcano that emerged suddenly on 1943 from a farmer’s land in a matter of day. Now peaking at 9200ft, it’s still the first ever volcano whose birth has been witnessed by human eyes.
gMlgy TIL The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is, quite sadistically, a palindrome.
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R7NP4 TIL There are a billion missing years in earth's rock layers -- one theory is that Snowball Earth, where miles of ice eroded those rock layers and sent the sediment into the oceans where they were plunged back into the mantle to be recycled -- there are also no fossil layers before this period
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