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TIL Woody Harrelson’s dad was a hitman and died in prison while serving a life sentence for killing a Federal Judge.

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KYb7w TIL Harrison Ford has only played a villain in a movie once throughout his entire 50+ year film career: The thriller "What Lies Beneath" released in 2000 co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
D1MZv TIL: The number of nuclear weapons in the world is actually down from 70,000 in 1986 to around 14,000 today
1LyP TIL that on April 6th, 1926 a boy named Phillip McClean was killed when he and his brother came across a Cassowary bird on their property. They tried to kill it, but it kicked Philip in the neck, cutting him, and he bled to death. McClean is the only person to be killed by a Cassowary.
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
7ryPx TIL That Sean Bean was afraid of flying in Helicopters during the filming of Lord of the Rings. The Crew would look down at 7:30 AM and see him fully dressed in costume climbing cliffs all by himself.