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TIL about Stan Latkin, who lived for 555 days without a heart while awaiting a transplant.

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GKk7 TIL in the 1960s, Baghdad was a modern, flourishing, and a very clean city by 60s standards. Girls play volleyball, men play board games in open air cafes while sipping strong Arabic coffee, the police force looks purposeful, the traffic is orderly.
YPRW TIL Charles-Alexandre de Calonne: Took office of finance during the period of huge debt that would lead to the French Revolution. He proposed taxing the property of the rich and clergy. His proposal was rejected, he was then blamed for the debt entirely, nicknamed “Monsier Deficit”, and exiled.
xGPB TIL that after the invention of the Cherokee Alphabet by Sequoya in 1825, the literacy rate of the Cherokee people soon surpassed that of their European and American neighbors.
XExaj TIL the USA have the most billionaires of any country at 614, with China next at 389
BLvL TIL the first King to travel around the world was King Kalākaua of Hawaii