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TIL Motorola’s first “brick” phone had a 30-minute talk time and a 10-hour charge time.

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dLxB TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering
605Z TIL despite the Russian fleet signalling surrender in the Battle of Tsushima, the Japanese navy didn’t get the message and continued firing because they did not have surrender in their codebooks.
d8MRQ TIL of the Icelandic Naming Committee, a committee that can deny the introduction of any new given child names into the Icelandic culture and vocabulary based on compatibility with Icelandic tradition.
da79 TIL in 1947, a British South American Airways flight was flying normally over the Andes Mnts., 4 minutes from landing, but then it sent a morse code message ‘STENDEC’ three consecutive times, then vanished, the wreckage not to be found for 50 years. To this day, what 'STENDEC’ meant is a mystery.
epdVg TIL after Surtsey volcano emerged from the sea in the 60's, it was declared a reserve to study how life expands to new territories, and only a few humans are allowed to visit with multiple precautions, including ensuring that they don't spread viable seeds in their excrement.