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TIL that the CIA's Directorate of Science & Technology created the lithium-ion battery in the mid 1960s and declassified it for public sector use

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rRaEM TIL Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip from YouTube, Used it in Family Guy and filed a copyright claim for the Original to be taken down
GP6g TIL that more than 20 people died in 1998 after being given synthetic blood in an FDA approved ‘no consent study’. Patients were selected at the accident scene or en route to the hospital to receive the fake blood.
QNVxM TIL Charles Darwin only worked about 4 hours a day. He worked for two 90-minute periods each morning & then one 60-minute period later in the day. Before the latter, he would take an hour nap & go on 2 walks. On this schedule he wrote 19 books including The Descent of Man & On the Origin of Species.
8KOX TIL that human poop and farts get their foul smell from the chemical compounds Skatole and Indole (among others). At low concentrations, these compounds smell flowery, and are used in perfumes. USA and Israel have used Skatole in crowd control sprays—the stench does not wash off skin for 3 days.
nen59 TIL Rupert Grint used his Ron Weasley money to buy an ice cream truck and gives out free ice cream to kids.