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TIL A US doctor gained fame for transplanting goat testicles into men as a cure for impotence and to boost virility

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BrRRW TIL that Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion lives with a "miracle wheat" that averted mass starvation, becoming 1 of only 5 people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal. He said, "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."
m15Kx TIL that During the Victorian Era, rich English people would host “unwrapping” parties with genuine Egyptian mummies.
vjMB TIL that Venus is the only planet in the Solar System where the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
R7BR4 TIL in 1968 a group of Star Trek fans cornered William Sharner as he left 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and attempted to rip his clothes off. It is likely that this event stopped Shatner from attending Star Trek conventions for over a decade.
N79jE TIL that an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, upset many parents because a teenage character "suffered no consequences and showed no remorse" for losing her virginity, prompting the network to "punish" the characters via a pregnancy scare