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TIL: It Is Possible To Only Have High Blood Pressure In The Doctor’s Office And It Is Called “White Coat Syndrome”

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eA6E TIL Christmas (December 25) is actually the FIRST “Day of Christmas”, and that the “Twelve Days of Christmas” actually lead up to the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). Most of this tradition has been forgotten in Western Christianity.
BrXxb TIL the appendix actually serves as a sort of “backup/restore point” for your guts bacteria should it get wiped out
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
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neBEB TIL In 1985 2 young Irish boys made it to New York on their own with no money