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TIL that 90% of "dead" cell phone batteries returned to the manufacturer are repaired and resold.

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Dl6P TIL: Floyd Thompson was the longest held prisoner of war in US history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. When he returned, his wife was living with another man and of his 3 children, only his eldest child barely remembered him. Within 4 years of rescuing, he attempted suicide.
p85vZ TIL a group of vultures is referred to differently depending on what they're observed doing: "kettle", "committee" or "wake." The term kettle refers to vultures in flight, while committee refers to vultures resting on the ground or in trees. Wake is reserved for a group of vultures that are feeding.
dDNV7 TIL about Ship Money, a tax on coastal areas of England to promote ship building in times of war. King Charles I tried to levy it in peacetime and to extend it to the inland counties of England without parliamentary approval. It provoked fierce resistance and helped to trigger the English Civil War.
Y697 TIL that David Bowie was so zonked out on drugs that he barely remembers making his album “Station to Station.”
7rmVp TIL the Lakota tribe conquered the Black Hills from the Cheyenne tribe in 1776