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TIL Woody Harrelsons father (Charles Harrelson) was an American hitman and organized crime figure.

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nZDd TIL that apple orchards rent thousands of bees in hives from bee keepers to pollinate their trees in the spring. After a couple weeks when the trees have been pollinated the bee keeper comes back for his hives and transports them to the next orchard in need.
gM7bD TIL Not only are all four Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo) named for Renaissance Artists but so is Splinter- which was a nickname for a Florentine painter named Masaccio
gMDB8 TIL of all the US states and territories, Hawaii has the lowest "highest all-time temperature" at 98°.
b6Ox4 TIL in 2009, Benjamin Moody cracked the signing key to a TI-83+ calculator in 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor, allowing users to flash their own OS. In 1999 same algorithm required a Cray supercomputer and 8000 MIPS-years of computing time to factorize a similar 512-bit key.
l7JDa TIL 76% of the Dutch take part in recreational cycling (i.e cycle just for fun)