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TIL: When you pass on you can leave your pacemaker to various animal organizations and veterinarian offices so that they can be used in dogs that need pacemakers in order to extend their lives.

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yQ8dM TIL A hidden ecosystem seems to lurk six miles below the Mariana Trench, offering clues for finding life across the solar system.
vPPQr TIL that eating a single grape can be fatal to a dog.
p84oQ TIL Sarah Jessica Parker's ancestor Esther Elwell was accused of being a witch in 1692 Salem when a young girl claimed to have seen her ghost strangling her neighbor. Esther's case never went to court and she escaped a tragic death by a matter of days, as Salem stopped trying witches 1 month prior.
wLKy7 TIL astronaut Gus Grissom named the Gemini 3 Molly Brown, in the hope that it wouldn't sink after splashdown. NASA didn't like it and asked him to change the name, to which he replied, "How about the Titanic?" NASA relented, but this was the last time astronauts were allowed to name their capsule.
VBLj8 TIL that both Quantum tunneling and Quantum Entanglement are both involved in the process of a tadpole turning into a frog.