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R5nDl TIL: Bank of America was originally called Bank of Italy
gMJ4L TIL that Bank of America was originally founded as Bank of Italy, in America.
9Y1m7 TIL of how the U.S. Government set up the first bank for "newly emancipated Black communities" after the Civil War; but in the 1870s, Henry Cooke & Ulysses S. Grant got away with scamming the Freedman's Bank out of $75,000 ($1.77M in 2020), crippling the bank into bankruptcy...