TIL that during the 1920s, a doctor named John Brinkley became one of the wealthiest men in America by surgically implanting goat testicles into men to cure impotence. He was so popular he almost became the Governor of Kansas.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9529641/?hl=en-US
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