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TIL that 2000s WWF heel, Chris Harvard (Christopher Nowinski) is a Harvard graduated Neuroscientist. He co-founded Boston University's CTE center and wrote the 2006 book "Head Games" which sounded the alarm about CTE in the NFL

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