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TIL after being told he could not drink or smoke in front of the King of Saudia Arabia for religious reasons, Winston Churchill said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”

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