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TIL research suggests that beer has nothing to do with the “beer gut”

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YAYW TIL when Leah Remini was at Tom Cruise’s & Katie Holmes’ wedding, she found Suri lying on the floor in the bathroom, with three women standing around the baby and chanting her name.
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