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TIL of Guy Gabaldon, who captured over 1500 Japanese single handedly

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GYopG TIL Carl Tanzler, German radiographer, dug up a patient he had been obsessing over and lived with the corpse for seven years. During those years, he fitted the face with glass eyes, replaced the skin with wax, used loads of perfume on the body and even installed a Paper tube to allow for intercourse
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Mebaa TIL of cherubism, a genetic disease that causes large cysts to form inside face bones, making the bones sponge-like and disfigured.