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TIL electric car batteries are not one big battery but thousands of smaller batteries connected together

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kge TIL In the 1940’s and 1950’s a “blow job” was slang for the sonic boom behind jet aircraft.
MeWo0 TIL that a 2019 study found human empathy towards other animal species decreased in line with the amount of time since our evolutionary paths diverged
Wkr8B TIL about Isobel Wylie Hutchison, a Scottish botanist who challenged early 20th-century gender roles by braving the harsh environments of the Arctic and going on "strolls" that went on for hundreds of miles.
gDN4 TIL according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
KYrvw TIL a village in Portugal encourages children to smoke cigarettes as part of a traditional Epiphany ritual.