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TIL Eleven well reported medical studies show cigarette smoking actually LOWERS Alzheimer’s risk. However, 10 years later, it comes to light Every study was done by scientists with UNDECLARED connections to the tobacco industry.

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KOLmG TIL the Olympic tradition of running the torch from Olympia to the host city first started at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
OoV8e TIL a New Jersey man was once charged $3,750 for a bottle of wine after the waitress recommended the one that was "thirty-seven fifty."
p8LxG TIL that, 49 million years ago, moss rapidly transformed the earth from 'greenhouse earth' to 'icehouse earth' that we live in today - changing c02 from 3,000 ppm to 500 ppm.
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