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TIL that a Chinese lady made a phone that uses Coca-Cola as its battery.

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jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.
dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.
DQpkr TIL Musical Saturist Tom Lehrer released all his music and Lyrics in to the Public Domain in 2007 - and is still alive
5mDB TIL on the final day of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, during the announcement of the verdict, Dominos Pizza reported receiving no orders for 5 straight minutes nationwide.
6v4m TIL in 1910, brothers Bud and Temple Abernathy traveled alone on horseback from their ranch in Oklahoma to NYC. Their cross-country journey took 74 days to complete, spanning 2000 miles. After arriving, they bought a car and drove back home. Bud was five years old at the time; Temple was nine.