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TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.

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AMRw TIL that in 1983 the Russians shot down Korean Airlines flight 007, killing all 269 people on board, including a U.S. Congressman