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TIL an electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one knows what the battery is made of.

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Edv0 TIL after France refused to deliver five missile boats Israel bought from them, Israel executed a heist to steal the boats and piloted them back to Israel
R7x06 TIL guitarist Brian Setzer bought the entire inventory of guitar amp tubes from a company that was going out of business in the 80s, which gives him a unique guitar tone that is impossible to exactly replicate.
nW6x9 TIL the United States and the Soviet Union were technically separated by a mere 3.7 km, and a woman swam between them in 1987, earning praise from the leaders of both countries
X0GDj TIL that the army built a tunnel to drain Spirit Lake, to relieve water pressure against a natural dam created by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. If the tunnel fails - and it will - the dam will fail and a 40-foot wave will race down the valley, all the way to Kelso, WA, on the Columbia river.
BoWb TIL the President of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network lied about being on the 78th floor of the south WTC during the attack. She was actually in Spain during 9/11.