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Cigarettes for Doctors

This was long before the Surgeon General warned that smoking would kill you. In fact, your very own doctor might hand you a cigarette—right along with a lung cancer diagnosis.

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The More You Know

  • In one month, the average person consumes about a Lego brick’s worth of microplastic.
  • Indians read the most out of any nationality.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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