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Fun Fact Twist On this day in 1967, docs in Cape Town did the unthinkable: Swap a guy's heart like a bad battery. He lasted 18 days, but sparked a transplant revolution. What's the craziest med breakthrough you've seen? 🏥 #OnThisDay

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On December 1, 1990, British and French workers finally met in the middle of the English Channel, shaking hands 40 meters underground after years of digging from both sides. This breakthrough completed the 50km Channel Tunnel (or "Chunnel"), the longest undersea tunnel in the world at the time, linking the UK to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age. It wasn't just an engineering marvel—it shrunk travel times, boosted trade, and ended Britain's island isolation (though it did spark endless debates about sovereignty and rabbits). Trains now zip through in 35 minutes, carrying millions annually.

1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in Sweden (the invention that would both make him rich and haunt him). Alfred Nobel patented dynamite on November 25, 1867, in Britain. He tamed dangerously unstable nitroglycerin by mixing it with absorbent earth (kieselguhr), making a safe, powerful explosive that revolutionized mining, tunneling, and construction—and made him hugely rich. But when newspapers called him “the merchant of death” (and one even ran his obituary early), he was horrified. That guilt led him to leave his fortune to create the Nobel Prizes, turning his name from destruction to peace and progress.