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TIL that the heart can still beat outside the body for about 4 hours without medical intervention, that's because the heart is not regulated by the brain, the heartbeats are sparked by its own natural pacemaker.

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yQ0YM TIL that online piracy drove Epic Games to stop making PC games from 2006 to 2012. In 2006, for every bought copy of a PC game, there were 10 pirated ones. So Epic Games went console-only.
DQAne TIL When en route to prison following an arrest for witchcraft in 1619, Joan Flowers asked for bread as a substitute for the Eucharist. She claimed that something so blessed could not be consumed by a witch. She choked and died after the first bite.
KY6oG TIL A man stole $200,000 and then murdered his entire family over an obsession with a Bulgarian webcam model.
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