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TIL of Eben Byers, who won the US Amateur Golf Championship in 1906. After an injury a doctor recommended a popular ‘cure-all’ called Radithor. Due to taking this, his jaw had decayed. The deteriorating tissue was surgically removed, leaving him with a gaping hole where his mouth used to be.

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