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Pig lung transplanted into a human

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124 points signa11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.337s | source
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Stevvo ◴[30 Aug 25 19:45 UTC] No.45077452[source]▶
I was thinking, big deal, didn't they do a pig heart transplant back in 1999? Turns out that was a popular children's novel and TV series in the UK called "Pig Heart Boy", not reality. First actually pig heart transplant was in 2022.
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cblum ◴[30 Aug 25 22:47 UTC] No.45078659[source]▶
This reminds me that when I was a kid, I read an Uncle Scrooge story where a cruise ship of his runs aground and he sends Donald to run it as a new kind of hotel.

I carried that in my head as fact, that there was once a cruise ship that ran aground and they turned it into a hotel.

Only realized it as an adult when one day I brought up the ship-turned-into-hotel thing in a conversation at work.

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1. bombcar ◴[31 Aug 25 04:16 UTC] No.45080333[source]▶
There are a few docked cruise ships run as hotels, where they're so docked it would be hard to undock, but not run aground.