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TIL of Dr. Serge Voronoff who dedicated his life to researching animal testicles and developed a treatment to graft monkey balls into humans. This became somewhat popular with millionaires in the 20s as a means to curb aging and other ailments.

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nll7 TIL in 1954 a teenaged Elvis Presley played his first and only show at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. He was subsequently kicked out of the venue by management because they didn’t like how he was playing country music. He vowed never to return.
Z6BB TIL that the Bob Marley’s Redemption song refrain “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free the mind” quotes a speech given in Nova Scotia by African American civil rights activist Marcus Garvey in 1937.
1a8bd TIL over 36,000 people a year die in the US alone from car accidents
6EBKY TIL about the origin of the term “decimation”. It was a punishment in the Roman Army where soldiers were spilt into groups of 10, straws were drawn and whoever drew the short straw was clubbed, stabbed or stoned to death by the remaining 9. The first recorded instance of this is from 478 BC.
8aw4L TIL under U.S. federal law, if you know you're under investigation then it's illegal to delete your browser history.