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TIL John B Goodenough is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery

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GAJR1 TIL former US president Ulysses S Grant and Mark Twain were close friends. Twain, being aware of Grant's poor financial situation post-presidency, offered him a 70% royalty for his Memoirs
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aaXZ TIL when Shaka Zulu’s mother died in 1827, over 7,000 people were executed for being “insufficiently grief-stricken”. Cows were also slaughtered so that young calves would “know what it feels like to lose a mother.”
jGlQ TIL of “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” where a person perceives a vibration from their device when, in fact, it’s not doing so and may not even be in the vicinity.
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