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x6Ov1 TIL In the Sixth Dynasty, the Pharaoh elevated a physician named Iri to "Shepherd of the King’s Anus", a great honor.
KYJKQ TIL Since dissecting human corpses was a taboo in the greco-roman world, Galens used Macaque Monkeys to study human anatomy, as he thought them to be the most anatomicaly similar to humans out of all the animal species he knew. This led to some errors, as they were less similar than he thought
GApZ7 TIL humans can be born with tails.