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TIL Rhinoplasty(nose reconstruction surgery) has been performed since 3000 BC in Egypt, and a 600 BC Indian technique using a flap of skin from the cheek to reconstruct the nose is still in use today.

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kJaK7 TIL 1970s ABA & NBA player John Brisker disappeared and was rumored to have been killed and eaten by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda.
Opl6 TIL that the reason why development for the male contraceptive RISUG/VaselGel is so slow is because it will directly compete with the female birth-control pills and big pharma does not want that to happen.
JYOol TIL about The Onion King, an onion farmer in the 30s who took control of 98% of America’s onions and manipulated the market.
l7BD1 TIL Chicago based street gangs such as the vice lords and gangster disciples recruited many native Americans into their gangs
JYXBj TIL in the mid-1960s three corporations, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, controlled over 90% of the American new car market. GM alone had a nearly 50% market share at that point.