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>>8891312
It was even worse because regular batteries would recharge themselves. Not even joking. Most batteries then were carbon zinc. To simplify a lot of jargon, the chemical reactions in these were pretty slow and you could drain the battery to the point it was unusable while there was still plenty of fuel left in it. If you let it sit for a couple days that chemical process would have enough time to build up enough charge in the battery to make it useful again. Hence the name 9 lives. In reality I got far more than 9 "recharges" out of many batteries.