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TIL Jon Stewart’s salary is over 3x higher than Stephen Colbert’s

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Ljxp TIL When season 3 of the show The West Wing was postponed due to 9/11, Aaron Sorkin spent the 3 week window writing & producing a special episode themed around terrorism. Due to its relevance and writing, it was the most awarded season in of any TV show that year.
Yp6od TIL that US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina after a plane crash in 1961
j54R TIL that an investment bank that lost 66 employees on 9/11 has paid the college fees of 54 children of their fallen co-workers.
XQVj TIL during the beginning of the 19th century, Ireland had almost half the population of Great Britain with ~5 million to it’s 10.5 million. Today at 6.3 million and 61 million it is little more than 1/10th.
p8DO TIL when you mouse over “I’m feeling lucky” it now changes and brings up other “I’m feeling…”