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Chewing Tobacco: Kids Edition

There's no better way to advertise chewing tobacco than with... uh... a small child holding a Christmas garland? Hey, Little Katie, you're about to get gum disease from all that chewing tobacco.

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The More You Know

  • When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
  • Nintendo was founded in 1889. Before it sold video games, the Japanese company specialized in playing cards.
  • Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 'Chicken of Tomorrow' Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.
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