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TIL John Goodenough invented the lithium-ion battery and never received a penny for his invention nor a Nobel prize.

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GYyY4 TIL Aerosmith Earned More Money from Guitar Hero Than From Sales of Their Albums
d84BK TIL That registered pets on the Blizzard Entertainment campus have to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) by placing their pawprint to refrain them from passing any secret games Blizzard is working on.
wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
rNede TIL about “English as She is Spoke”, a Portuguese-English translation guide, written by an author that had no grasp of English. He used a Portuguese-French and then a French-English guide for help instead. The resulting book was read by both Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln to have a good laugh.
wLXkE TIL Florida has almost twice as many boating accidents as the next highest state(California) which has about twice as many as the third highest (New York)