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TIL Serge Voronoff was a surgeon who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men as anti-aging therapy while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s.

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rRvXM TIL in 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a choice to either shrink the Mac or enlarge the iPod. Jobs pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams against each other in an internal competition.
l7l1B TIL about Vulture Bees, who instead of collecting nectar, collect the flesh from rotting carcasses and produce a "decay-resistant edible glucose product resembling honey", aka Meat Honey.
b8M9 TIL there is a Penny Lobby in the United States to keep the one cent coin in circulation even though it is produced at a loss. The lobby was hired by Jardin Zinc Products, who is the sole provider of penny blanks to the U.S. Government.
gMLJb Today I learned about Meditating 2 hours a day
Anj7 TIL Erwin Rommel as a junior officer in the German Army during World War 1, captured 19,000 Italian soldiers during the Battle of Caporetto over the course of 13 days with less than 150 men under his command. Six German soldiers died under his command in the battle.