These are great Michael! I just trimmed the Facebook posts a bit. (In bold.) 

Jeff Elder
Digital communications manager
Wikimedia Foundation

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone, 

Here is some proposed social media for December 2. Thank you for reviewing!


t: The Arba'een Pilgrimage is one the world's largest gatherings, with over 19 million from 40 countries around the world. http://buff.ly/1Npi1RS

Fb: The Arba'een Pilgrimage is the world's largest annual gathering. Sunnis, Christians, Yazidis and peoples of other faiths participate, as do nonreligious people.


Fb: On this day in 1982, Barney Clark, a dentist who was dying of congestive heart failure, became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, paving the way for modern prototypes today. 

t: On this day in 1982, Barney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. http://buff.ly/1Nplikb









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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org

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