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TIL that Woody Harrelson’s father was a hitman and organized crime figure, convicted of assassinating a federal judge

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j6av TIL that the 1984 Challenger flight brought a beehive into space. Because bees do not defecate inside their hive, all 3,300 bees held it in for 7 days.
ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
v1144 TIL Japan's prime minister sends you a silver cup when you turn 100
M7Bn8 TIL - All of Germany's federal laws & regulations are tracked in a GitHub repository
696OZ TIL: When Sherman published his memoirs during Grant’s Presidency. Many thought that Sherman treated Grant unfairly, however Grant defended the book, saying "when I finished the book, I found I approved every word;that…it was a true book, an honorable book…just as I expected Sherman would write”