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TIL the notion of waiting 30 mintues after eating before swimming has no scientific basis whatsoever

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oBjGA TIL that California is named after a mythological queen who ruled over an island nation of black warrior women and fought with an army of trained griffins.
0wDDv TIL Raul Julia or 'Gomez' from Addams Family (1991) was visibly ill with stomach cancer on set of the sequel. He died less than a year later.
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