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TIL Christopher Lee Rios, better known as rapper Big Pun, weighed nearly 700 lbs when he died at the age of 28

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7rNyx TIL that there is a job where people trim cow hooves, keeping the cows from going lame and having other issues.
pYDPO TIL that the Sushruta Samhita, a Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery written in India around the 6th century BCE, contains detailed surgical techniques—including cataract surgery, rhinoplasty, and even plastic surgery—around 2000 years before similar practices were documented in the West.
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