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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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0wRm5 TIL former supreme court justice James McReynolds was blatantly anti-Semitic. He refused to speak to Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the Court, for three years & habitually left the conference room whenever Brandeis spoke. He also left the courtroom whenever a female lawyer argued a case.
VOnk TIL that there are TWO famous guys named Hippocrates. One for medicine and one for mathematics.
xVxj1 TIL Frosty the Snowman was animated in Tokyo, making it, by definition, an anime. The same studio (Mushi Productions) also animated Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (because they're made with stop-motion, they don't count).
9YW9G TIL lobsters have evolved to pee at each other to express sexual interest, and like to pee during sex. This process begins with the female basically drugging the male with her own urine.
Br1we TIL Sharks have rush hour too: a study found that shark traffic on major routes around Palmyra Atoll peaked between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m