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TIL of Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon that was known as the "monkey gland man". He claimed to rejuvenate his patients, transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into millionaires, turning to using monkey testicles when supplies ran low. Over 500 men were treated with his technique.

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6EaJJ TIL that in Bali,12 days after the cremation ceremony called ngaben, the cremated ashes are filled inside a coconut shell and carried to a nearby ocean to return the remains back to the elements.
yVkPX TIL in California there have been more than 200 attempts over the years to break up the state.
dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.
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