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TIL between 1991 and 2018 lithium-ion batteries became 30x cheaper

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dD4wZ TIL Fabio Lanzoni (romance novel covers) sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber as he believes it "reverses the aging process"
NXA6 TIL you need to have a net worth of 7.5 million to open a Panera
N1ZQ TIL the cast/crew of Star Wars: A New Hope flew coach to England due to a low budget. Carrie Fisher’s mother, Debbie Reynolds, called George Lucas to complain about her daughter flying coach. Fisher took the phone from Lucas and said “Mother, I want to fly coach, will you fuck off?!” and hung up.
kpj1 TIL Amazon owns IMDb
xQao TIL Jeremiah Haralson, the first African American of the Alabama House of Representatives and later a member of Congress, is believed to be the only member of Congress to have been killed and eaten by wild animals