BBC News (@bbcnews)’s video of Lithium Batteries

In the Soviet Union, finding new batteries was often harder than repairing the old ones. So when my radio died in the garage, my friends showed me a legendary trick: hammer the batteries, boil them in salted water, and somehow bring them back to life. Everything worked perfectly until I decided to revive an entire box of dead batteries at home and nearly turned the kitchen into a disaster zone. #USSR #sovietunion #history #story