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TIL About charities that take used pacemakers from deceased people and donate them to people in third world countries

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epl1g TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.
VBlnG TIL when Bette Davis diminished Joan Crawford's career by saying she got it through the casting couch, Crawford responded: "It sure as hell beats the hard cold floor."
WkQ04 TIL many Romans loved their dogs and made graves for them with profoundly touching epitaphs. One read, "I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago."
mDO TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.
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