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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

  • There was a flying dinosaur the size of a giraffe.
  • The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
  • Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
  • The first pair of Nike running shoes was made in a waffle iron.
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