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Washing your face in Tuesday rainwater

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Old folklore suggests that collecting rainwater on a specific weekday and using it to wash your face will guarantee extreme beauty, completely ignoring the sheer amount of modern pollution falling from the sky.

Washing your face in Tuesday rainwater
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