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TIL That there are no A and B batteries because they simply quit selling as they didn't fit into the growing consumer electronics business needs after World War I

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vPReK TIL that the African Union has a 43-party free trade zone for goods, stretching from South Africa to Tunisia
LQkGZ TIL In 1930 Thomas Edison was at the controls for the first departure of a regular-service electric multiple unit train from the Hoboken Terminal to Montclair New Jersey!
Y7n5Z TIL In Canada British Columbia, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia didn't officially change to right hand traffic on roads until the 1920's. Newfoundland did so in 1947 two years before joining Canada.
XYEE TIL the largest Chinese community in Europe is found in the Tuscan city of Prato. Prato’s Chinese community consists of an estimated 20,000 legal and 30,000 illegal migrants, many working in sweatshops that provide affordable “Made in Italy” textiles for China’s emerging middle class.
oBMGL TIL of "Project A119" a plan from 1958 in which the US Air Force wished to nuke the moon in an attempt to show power over the Soviets and also collect data on astrogeology. The project was eventually rejected due to fear of public backlash.