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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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dDl8K TIL that the long running radio program about a Black maid named Beulah was originally voiced by a white man. The character was in several radio programs before finally landing her own series, which later transitioned to television.
PYJVE TIL parrots kept as pets will go through severe emotional trauma when they're given away, sold, or abandoned, developing destructive behaviors like screaming, aggression and self mutilation, plucking out their feathers In the wild they are extremely social and often mate for life (60-80 years.)
Kmx4 TIL of Valentina Vassilyeva, the Russian peasant who gave birth to 69 children by her husband Feodor. None were born solo, as she gave birth 27 different times - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Feodor later had an additional 18 children with his second wife.
WkWKN TIL that in 1972, two grad students at MIT invented Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy, a technique for transferring spin orientation from one atomic nucleus to another. Yes, they chose this name specifically for the acronym.
Z8eKp TIL that, as a vice presidential nominee in the 1824 election, John C. Calhoun was the running mate of both noted rivals John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson.