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TIL a man lived 555 days without his heart, he used instead device he carried on his backpack to pump blood through his body, enabling him to do all sorts of things while awaiting transplant

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5YWen TIL That Casey Jones' Locomotive Was Involved in the Deaths of Six Railroad Employees in Three Different Accidents
e0ye6 TIL Marshall Mabey was a $1 a day NYC tunnel worker called "Sandmen". On Feb 19 he was working under the East River where the tunnel was pressurized to prevent cave ins. A crack in the ceiling vented Mabey up through the mud, the East River and 25 feet into the air. He lived and was uninjured.
0w9X1 TIL there's a light bulb that has been burning since 1901. Many like it still exist and can be found working. It has been cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs. There is a livestream of it. Ironically, two cameras have already died while streaming.
OGDxe TIL Australian surfer Laura Enever broke a world record for women by paddling into a 43.6-foot wave on Oahu's North Shore in January
6Emrl TIL When Andrew Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War Stanton, Stanton refused to leave and locked himself in his office for weeks, refusing to let his successor in.