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TIL that cigarette filters only reduce the risk of catching smoking related diseases because of the presence of the filter reduces the amount of tobacco in the cigarette.

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J1aJQ TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God.
J0kl TIL Chris Brown didn’t just punch Rihanna - he repeatedly beat her, causing her to bleed from her mouth, shoved her against a car window, bit her hand and choked her within an inch of her life.
dDNEj TIL that when Amedeo Modigliani died of tuberculosis, his companion Jeanne Hébuterne threw herself out of the fifth-floor apartment window before dawn on the day of Modigliani’s funeral. She was 21 years old and eight months pregnant with their second child.
9kKQ TIL during the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev said to Mao Zedong that “Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
wKE1 TIL an Army dentist was able to mow down almost 100 enemy soldiers with a machine gun in WWII to protect his wounded soldiers.