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TIL Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

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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.
GYpBQ TIL that the happiest countries in the world are also the highest consumers of antidepressants.
xmKB TIL: George Washington died in 1799 when doctors drained more than half of his blood to cure a sore throat.
RO5w TIL Canada has sold hundreds of millions of tons of asbestos to developing and 3rd world countries with no regulations against the cancer causing substance with no warning, while knowing fully well the dangers of the product.
lLaN TIL: When he was dying, Einstein refused surgery, saying “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”