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TIL: Country music became popular in America partially through a pirate radio station of a quack doctor based out Kansas who built a fortune on a procedure to implant goat testicles into men's scrotums.

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VpBk TIL Bill Murray does not have an agent or a manager. Instead he has a number to call and pitch him an idea via the voice mail. If he likes it he will call you back. The phone number is impossible to find. The only people who know it are people who already have worked with him.
woolW TIL that the remains of Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal "Angel of Death", are being used in Brazil forensic medicine courses
jNPwp TIL that a man was found guilty of an unsolved murder by tattooing the murder scene on his chest
e0NrJ TIL that a Taliban commander wanted with a bounty on his head gave himself up to try to collect that bounty.
kYY5 TIL Brazil Prisons offer their prisoners to reduce their sentence for 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every Book they read and write a report on.