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TIL Philippine-based inventors have created a portable salt-powered lamp which gives 8 hrs of light per 1 cup of seawater & can also power cell phones. It uses science that's the basis of battery-making but with no flammable parts & works 8 hrs/day for 6 months with no parts replacement needed.

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