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00:00The Baghdad battery, a clay jar, a copper tube, an iron rod, simple.
00:04But when tested with vinegar, it generates electricity.
00:07It's over 2,000 years old, before wires, before light bulbs,
00:10before we were supposed to know what electricity even was.
00:13So did they invent the battery and forget it?
00:15Or were they copying something they didn't fully understand?
00:18Sometimes the past isn't behind us.
00:20It's ahead, and we're still catching up.