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by aSockPuppeteer 1098 days ago
https://www.consumerreports.org/safety-recalls/why-lithium-i...

I have a few old devices too and just had a spicy pillow issue. Now it’s in a metal bucket waiting to be disassembled.

Manufacturing defects + thin anode/cathode wall. A quick search https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09504... came up for batteries in storage exploding risk. Long read, increasing in occurrence.