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TIL breathing the air in Mumbai for ONE day is equivalent to smoking 2.5 packs of cigarettes

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J1dx8 TIL that since 1949 all Treasurers of the United States, whose signature is on all dollar bills (along with the Treasury Secretary’s), have been women