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TIL that Nobel Prize laureate Harald zur Hausen, renowned for linking HPV to cervical cancer, devoted his later years to exploring a similar connection between animal product consumption and colon cancer until his passing in 2023.

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g5yL TIL that exercising makes you both more productive and happier for the day that you exercise. It affects your brain function and memory, and the positive effect lasts for the entire day.
0dP6p Today I learned that Stephen Duncan, the largest slaveholder during the civil war (and second overall in US History) was actually pro-unionist and was ostracized by the confederates he lived with in Mississippi
Kl09 TIL Chuck Norris was the first Westerner in documented Tae Kwon Do history to be awarded the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grand Master, which he received in 1990.
a8jbJ TIL that in January 879 a deceased Pope was exhumed and put on trial!
VMpjZ TIL kids from the Ho Chunk nation receive $200,000 upon turning 18 and graduating. The money comes from profits from the casinos. Many of the recipients end up blowing the money fast with little to show for it.