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TIL A woman put over a million miles on her Hyundai Elantra and was given a special badge and a brand new car

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LQBWZ 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.
9BB6 TIL there is a Russian adaptation of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, titled It’s Always Sunny in Moscow where a group of friends own a bar in Moscow called Philadelphia
KO5VB TIL about the 'Portrait of Dr. Gachet', the last portrait painted by Vincent Van Gogh before his death, which was sold for the then record sum of 82.5 million USD in 1990. It is one of Van Gogh’s most important works, but has been withheld from the public by its anonymous owner for almost 30 years.
VMmyD TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna
69988 TIL that in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984 a single yellow-headed amazone escaped from captivity, followed by a male a year later. Those two parrots have established a population of 60 birds, making them the biggest wild population of parrots in Europe