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TIL a no-beef diet is not much worse for the environment than a vegetarian diet

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0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.
kJenB TIL Lexi Alexander based Punisher: War Zone's limited colour palate on the box of comics Marvel sent her when she signed on to direct the film. It was only later that she discovered that she'd been sent cheap, three-colour copies of the original comics to save money.
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