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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.

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OGJaY TIL the Latin motto for the Kingdom of Naples (1282 AD - 1806 AD) was Noxias Herbas, meaning "Noxious herbs".
7rAdP TIL that killer whales are among the few non-primates to go through menopause, a possible reason being that they need to take care of their "families" after they are older.
dDVwj TIL the link between creative genius and mental illness. That highly creative artists have temperaments more akin to manic depressives than to the general public
P1WQw TIL that longer novels are more likely to win literary awards (like the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Award for Fiction)
94m6 TIL that professional bowlers used to out-earn professional football and baseball players.