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TIL scientists in Korea last year developed a Lithium-Ion battery that charges 120x faster than normal, and may lead to electric car batteries that charge in less than a minute.

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7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
PY48V TIL four American presidents were neither Democrat or Republican but "Whig", a third political party that collapsed around 1855.
PYJn TIL there are nearly 5,000 gods being worshiped by humanity.
a8xBL TIL that Thomas Dewey was so widely expected to win the 1948 Election against President Harry Truman that James Maloney, the Head of Secret Service, dispatched most of Truman's Secret Service detail to New York to prepare to guard Dewey. A few weeks after Truman won re-election, he dismissed Maloney
X0PBP TIL That Typhoon Tip was the largest most intense storm ever recorded, with winds 190 mph and size of 1380 miles wide in the south pacific, north of the Solomon Islands in 1979. Hurricane Patricia (2015) had the highest winds at 215 mph but was smaller in size and didn't last as long.