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TIL that Hannah Clark, a teen from England, lived with two hearts for 11 years after a piggyback transplant. Doctors later removed the donor heart when her original heart miraculously recovered and started working on its own again.

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7KjZ TIL that people feel more sympathy for dogs than they do for people.
6ApZ TIL that Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant
R7LYj TIL after committing the first British murder on a train Franz Muller fled to America by boat, the pursuing detectives caught a faster ship and arrived three weeks before he did. He was subsequently arrested and later hanged.
mQpP TIL that a man survived the sinking of a ship in 1871, leaving him traumatized afterwards. Some forty years later he was finally able to overcome his fears and sail again… only to die on the Titanic.
VMPJG TIL in the early 2000s, the UK and Spain almost came to an agreement to share sovereignty over Gibraltar. It was put to a vote, and 99% of the population of Gibraltar rejected Spain having sovereignty over the rock. Therefore, the place remains a British Overseas Territory.