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TIL that a man awaiting a heart transplant survived 100 days on an artificial heart, placed in his chest just like a real one. The invention was created by a father-and-son plumbing duo and originally used normal materials from local hardware stores.

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5NdP TIL the constitution of the Bhutan specifies that 60% of the country must remain forested.
e0Ojn TIL that the US has a submarine base in a lake in Idaho.
NXEaP TIL that since citizens of Turkmenistan receive free gas from the government, many citizens just leave their stove burners running 24/7 to avoid paying unnecessarily for matches.
oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
rjoy TIL that authentic Mongolian cuisine is mutton, mutton, and more mutton. (A “Mongolian barbecue” is neither Mongolian nor BBQ.) It is so monotonous that one travel author wrote “in 33 years of international travel [Mongolia] has without question the most pitiful food of any country I have visited”.