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Feb 2020
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Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the...

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It’s a pretty safe assumption that people have been born with birthmarks since humanity began, and between then and now we’ve come up with some wacky, even dangerous, explanations for them – even a few that survive still today. 
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