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TIL Woody and Brett Harrelson were born to a hitman who murdered a federal judge

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ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
gMrj8 TIL about "Stoned Ape Theory" that hypothesizes that psilocybin played an important role in human evolution
N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.
ne6jB TIL: The Three Gorges Dam in China holds such a massive amount of water that it slows down the earth's rotation and increases a day by 0.06 microseconds
gMgdD TIL that an 81 year old man called Giles Corey, accused of being a wizard in 1692, was the only man in American history to be subjected to death by pressing in an attempt to get him to submit to trial by jury. It is said that his response to the torture was to tell them to add 'more weight.'