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TIL: A 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart

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gMe58 TIL of Martin Heemeyer an American welder and Muffler repair shop owner who in 2004 went on a rampage and destroyed numerous buildings in the town of Granby Colorado with a modified bulldozer.
ANxV4 TIL about the cannonball run, an illegal race against time across the continental USA. The record drive, set during covid, lasted just under 26 hours with an average speed of 112 MPH.
DQgQv TIL John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) strongly pushed for a bill that put men who date under age girls on the sex offender list. Walsh dated his wife when she was 16 and he was in his 20s. According to his own bill he should be on the sex offender list. He is not.
Me580 TIL that Italian hand gestures were born to communicate with someone that spoke a different dialect. Italy has in fact 34 major dialects that are very different from each other and in the past the "standard Italian" was not used.
W7LMX TIL the Heinz factory in Wigan produces up to 3 million tins of baked beans a day