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TIL While dining with the Saudi King, Chruchill was told he could neither smoke nor drink, for religious reasons. He replied that, “My religion prescribed as an absolute sacred ritual smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”

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