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TIL: There's a Toyota Corona

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yQ9xp TIL Summer on Uranus lasts for 47 years, and so does winter.
16MVV TIL of Arjan Dwarshuis, Who in 2016, Spotted 6833, (of Roughly 11000), Bird Species In A Year
wbrY TIL privately owned stores such as Walmart can’t force you to show a receipt before letting you leave the store. You can politely refuse to show your receipt and continue walking out the door.
wolJ TIL that Mother Teresa did not administer painkillers to those infirmed in her homes for the dying (one could “hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief”), believing that pain brought them closer to Christ.
oaOW TIL the Toyota prius is described as “the biggest user of rare earths of any object in the world” as each battery pack uses 10–15 kg (22–33 lb) of lanthanum, and each electric motor contains 1 kg (2 lb) of neodymium