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TIL that a self-filling water bottle is being developed that draws moisture from the air - up to three liters every hour. It works by mimicking the way a beetle survives in the African desert.

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Lkr6d TIL - Eberhard and Tarpenning were the original founders and incorporated Tesla, while Musk, Straubel and Wright joined in a Series A round later on. A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five to call themselves founders.
QJYPk TIL A roman consul was told before a crucial battle with Carthage that the auguries suggested he shouldn't go to battle, since the chicken didn't eat that day. Wishing to do it any way, he proclaimed "lets see if they will drink", and had the sacred chickens drowned. He fought and lost the battle
JQam TIL that until 2004, Indiana allowed vehicle passengers to have open containers of alcohol (and consume alcohol) as long as the driver of the vehicle had a blood-alcohol level of 0.04 percent or lower.
BggeL TIL the Yakuza protected Koreans after they were targeted by Japanese police and lynch mobs in the 1923 Kanto Massacre
WEML TIL that in 1871, Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill into law that gave him the right to suspend habeas corpus in order to combat the Ku Klux Klan.