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TIL in the 1920s, a man falsely claiming to be a doctor implanted goat testicles into people across the US as a cure for all diseases. He was condemned by the AMA and media, but ran for governor of Kansas in 1930, narrowly losing after thousands of votes for him were questionably disqualified.

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