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TIL breathing the air in Mumbai for one day during Diwali is as good as smoking Two packs of cigarettes.

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ep6Eb TIL The film Crazy Heart was produced by Country Music Television and was originally set to be a direct-to-video release. Instead, it grossed nearly 7x its budget and won two Academy Awards.
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