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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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v1Box TIL Humans hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than they see so that everything that they perceive with their ears is coloring every other perception they have, and every conscious thought they have. Sound gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it.
ANPM7 TIL Vince Carter was traded by the Golden State Warriors twice and traded for Chris Webber twice before ever playing a game in the NBA.
61XZ TIL in 1997, there was an episode of Goosebumps called “Click.” In it, a kid gets a universal remote, uses it to pause his sister, change the color of his fish, fast forward through time, etc. 9 years later, Adam Sandler starred in a movie of the same name with a similar premise.
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RxB1 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of the animal kingdom with about 1,000,000 hairs per square inch.