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TIL Argentina forbade teacing Venn Diagrams in schools as the concepts of intersection and collaboration were considered subversive

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e04GL TIL Nazi Germany ran the first national anti-smoking campaign and in 1939, German scientist Franz Müller presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer.
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