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TIL that the first flashlight in 1899 could only run for 5 minutes before needing to allow its batteries to recover, and could only run for 30 minutes before it needed a battery replacement. Its output was about 1 lumen of brief flashes of light. It was used mostly by policemen and railway workers.

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