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TIL that president Ronald Reagan had 720 bags of jelly beans delivered to the White House each month and used them as a way to quit smoking

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ealJ TIL The man responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe was imprissoned by the Spanish Inquisition because “only Devil could give a man the power to exhale smoke from his mouth.”
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