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TIL actor Woody Harrelson’s father was a convicted hitman. One of his victims was a federal judge.

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X0LXE TIL Ghana has six witch camps, housing about 1000 women. The camps exist so that women accused of witchcraft can have a safe place to live without fear of being killed by their neighbours.
N74m6 TIL C&P: Thomas Jefferson used a razor to cut passages from the New Testament and literally pasted them together into what is now known as the Jefferson Bible, currently on display at the Smithsonian. He felt the focus should be on Jesus’ life and moral teachings, not inexplicable miracles
k941 TIL Emperor Haile Selassie, believed by Rastafarians to be a god, was presumably among the few historical figures ever to have to deny his divinity.
9Yv9B TIL there is roughly as much vitamin C in one ounce of narwhal skin as there is in one ounce of oranges.
yQpE8 TIL the rarest naturally occuring element on Earth, astatine, is so rare that there is only 28 grams of it on Earth at any given time. It is difficult to study, as most of its isotopes have a half-life of 1 second or less. Its appearance is not known with certainty.