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TIL a Victorian undertaker inadvertently launched the first Low Carb diet craze

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m1wkv TIL that before Esther Williams became an actress, she planned on competing in the 1940 Olympics, but the Olympics games were cancelled that year due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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