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TIL Congress passed the ‘No Fear Act’ in May 2002 ( “Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act) providing Whistleblower protection.

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5wbn TIL Dire wolves’ extinction has been related to their inability to compete for prey against faster wolves, making them scavengers.
xVnV1 TIL that according to molecular evidence the closest living relatives of whales are the artiodactyls, a group of hoofed mammals that includes deer, cows, sheep, pigs, giraffes, camels and hippos
Eg1Ro TIL Mariano Marcos (the father of former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and grandfather of president-elect Bongbong Marcos), was executed by guerillas for alleged collaboration with the Japanese. His hands were tied to water buffaloes who riped his body apart alive in different directions.
846a TIL during the scene for the 2008 film Cloverfield in which the head of the Statue of Liberty falls onto a city street, the head’s size is larger than its actual size in real life. Originally it was made properly to scale, but test audiences complained it looked too small and unrealistic.
QJ4PX TIL it is a common custom in Green Bay and other Wisconsin cities to put a baby's name on the Packers season ticket holder list as soon as the birth certificate is obtained.