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TIL that barbers in the Middle Ages performed surgery such as limb amputation, bloodletting and tooth pulling in addition to cutting hair. They were known as ‘barber surgeons’ and the red and white barber pole signified blood and bandages.

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ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
DyMD TIL that the hole at the end of the human penis is called a “meatus”.
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