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TIL leaning your head to your chest and drinking water makes it ALOT easier to take big capsules

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Y7Bpd TIL The Statute of Jewry, a statute issued by Henry III of England in 1253 to segregate and debase England's Jews with oppressive laws which included imposing the wearing of a yellow Jewish badge to invite the Christian public's disdain
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