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TIL there is a leading lithium-ion battery company called "Incell"

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MyyB TIL that Rosa Parks sued Outkast over the song “Rosa Parks;” they settled out of court, with the group agreeing to create educational programs about her life.
DQeWD TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived trapped in a storm cloud after ejecting for 40 minutes.
wy87 TIL hundreds of excavating machines (worth millions of dollars) have been buried underground in London because abandoning them is cheaper than digging them back out
eL0D TIL in the extinct Australian language Mbabaram, the word for dog is ‘dog’. This is purely a coincidence and there is no relation between the words
nJAr TIL that the seconds hands in train station clocks in Switzerland run 1.7 % faster, then stop for an extra second at the top of the minute (as they are synchronized). That gives trains a full 2 seconds during which they can leave exactly on time.