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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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MXdW TIL Thomas Edison’s last breath is stored in a test tube
9Rpr TIL in 1933, a University of Alabama professor voluntarily allowed a black widow spider to bite him as scientists recorded him suffering in agony for three days. Before this there were skeptics who believed black widows were not dangerous to humans.
PgQV TIL In Japan, farmers grow square watermelons but putting them in glass cubes to control their shape. These watermelons are more expensive and fit easier in refrigerators.
9Ya4m TIL A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds
N7ROP TIL that 50 yrs ago today, the US conducted its largest underground nuclear test. A W71 warhead was detonated in a 7-ft-wide, 5,873-ft-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska. The yield was about 5 Megatons. The explosion raised the ground 25 ft, later collapsing into a 1-mile-wide, 60-ft crater.