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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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XvQk TIL a man discovered a painting worth 1.25 million, by playing the boardgame Masterpiece and noticing the Heade painting showcased in the game bore a similar resemblance to the one he was using to cover a hole in his wall.
oBmYY TIL that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest, and lost.
0wOep TIL H-Alpha telescopes designed for the Sun shows surface granulation, movement on the Sun, and the prominences coming off the side. White light telescopes with filters can only show spots on the Sun, with very little granulation
D1ekY TIL in the 1900s, Radithor was marketed as an energy drink, but was really just distilled water with radium in it. When the first person died of the radiation poisoning, he had to be buried in a lead coffin. His body was still radioactive when he was disinterred years later.
eYXD TIL that a janitor from Chicago wrote over six years a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations called “In the Realms of the Unreal”, which was only discovered after his death.