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TIL that Electric Vehicles Lithium batteries are very difficult to extinguish in case of setting fire. It takes as much water as on a regular house fire. EV’s can also catch fire several weeks after a crash .

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ejAL TIL that transgender females can fight naturally-born women in mixed martial arts competitions
grOa9 TIL Only 15 of 38 starters finished the men's individual cross country event at the 1924 Summer Olympics due to a difficult course, 40°C weather and noxious fumes emitted from a nearby power plant.
oJ1R TIL Louis Braille, inventor of the system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired, created the raised-dot system by using an awl, the same kind of implement which had blinded him at the age of three.
PL5E TIL of a man who would inject himself with snake venom in an effort to build up an immunity. He lived to be 100, survived 172 snakebites, and donated his blood to snakebite victims.
XEonD TIL a florida man tired of other drivers using their cellphones installed a signal jammer in his car and was fined by the FCC $48,000 for its use