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TIL that the Hollywood star Woody Harrelson is the son of a hitman (convicted of killing two, and suspected of more)

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wLGE1 TIL that Einstein was born missing part of the brain that influences speech and did not speak until the age of three. However, his parietal lobe, responsible for math and spatial recognition, was abnormally large
ep6bD TIL on January 31, 1977 Evel Knievel jumped a tank full of sharks; Fonzie didn't jump the shark until September of the same year
neEEW TIL The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
b9gpN TIL about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl from Montgomery, AL who was arrested in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, telling the bus driver, "It's my constitutional right to sit here." She did this 9 months prior to Rosa Parks' famous protest.
jvdM TIL that there is such thing as False Awakening where you think that you have awoken from a dream and proceed with your daily life but you are actually still dreaming