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TIL 6-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first successful recipient of a heart and liver transplant in 1984. She had a genetic condition where her liver was unable to remove cholesterol, causing 2 heart attacks. Sadly she died at age 13.

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kOAw4 TIL on 1 May 1950 Mosinee, WI staged a communist take over where the mayor was dragged from his bed and "surrendered". The excitement caused him to have a heart attack, killing him 5 days later. The local minister also died after showing how he would hide a Bible from communists in a church organ.
e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.
wL88J TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, final leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991, is still alive. He's 87 and just wrote an editorial for the New York Times.
DrbJ TIL that one night, Elvis flew from Graceland to Denver and back just to buy a Fool’s Gold Loaf - an 8,000 calorie sandwich made from a hollowed out load of bread, a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam and a pound of bacon.
ydba TIL During the period of 2000-2009 Dave Matthews Band sold more tickets and earned more money than any other act in North America