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TIL: About Stan Larkin, who lived for 555 days without a heart before finally receiving a transplant.

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yQ71p TIL according to The Specialty Coffee Association of America, the Kopi Luwak (digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by a Civet) which costs US$700 per kilogram, is sold for the story, not for quality. The coffee's good acidity and flavor is diminished by the process.
axBy TIL none of the ~35 people killed in the Salem Witch Trials died from burning at the stake. 19 were hanged, 1 was pressed to death, all others died in jail.
ovjr TIL Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has a net worth of $800 million, making him one of the richest men in TV history.
p8waZ TIL hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death and consume the human equivalent of 140,000 calories per day to compensate. They enter an mini-hibernation mode (torpor) each night just to survive the suspension of calories.
yORM TIL there is a 17-year-old girl with a condition that causes rapid breast growth until she stops growing at age 21.