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SciShow, "5 Weird Ways People Tried to Live Forever.", August 18, 2025, YouTube, 15:28, https://youtube.com/watch?v=vumGX56cYdI. |
Throughout history, humans have come up with some pretty weird ideas related to longevity. Like drinking neurotoxic mercury to live forever, slathering yourself in oil and eating honey to reach the ripe old age of 300, or getting an incomplete vasectomy to give you, as one Nobel laureate put it, a "second puberty".
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