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TIL Doctors have observed that winning an Academy Award increases the life expectancy of actors and actresses.

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pYYWG TIL that Paul Giamatti's dad was the Commissioner of Baseball and President of Yale University
0bjL TIL Stanley Williams, co-founder and leader of the Crips, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, after writing several children’s books urging kids ‘not to make the same mistakes he did’. He was executed in 2005 on charges of quadruple homicide.
9rLQ TIL Ted Kennedy drove a car into the water, then fled the scene as his passenger died. He only received a two-month suspended jail sentence.
rRwXM TIL That to help combat iron deficiency(a worldwide nutritional problem), “lucky iron fish” - iron lumps molded into the shape fish are made to be added to cooking pots in Cambodia.