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TIL A new study has revealed that African countries such as Chad and Mali have some of the healthiest diets in the world, while the people in European countries including Belgium, Lativa and Hungary eat the worst

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xaQw TIL that in science a theory can never be “upgraded” to a law. They are entirely separate concepts.