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TIL that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to reduce working hours in 2002

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Y7amP TIL Cocaine Bear is the first movie release starring Ray Liotta after his death and is inspired by the true story of an American black bear that ingested a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985.
LQ0Am TIL In 1943, due to both teams losing a large number of players to military service in World War II, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged and thus created the Steagles. They ended with a winning season of 5-4-1.
Zpvga TIL that comedian Jon Stewart is a passionate advocate for 9/11 first responders and helped get the James Zadroga Act passed, which provides affected first responders with 75 years of health coverage and five years of compensation. He also fought for it's reauthorization in 2015 and 2019.
0w7Rp TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
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