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TIL that Pilates is named after a person, Joe Pilates

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VMPM8 TIL that the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates based all of his theories on superficial observations like texture, colors, and symptoms. Human dissection was considered taboo in Ancient Greece until Alexandrian physicians began dissecting cadavers in the third century B.C.
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