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TIL that Alessandro Volta not only invented battery, but also discovered and isolated methane and was a prime minister of short-lived Cisalpine Republic

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grBDy TIL of the "Wolfram Crisis" - a WW2 diplomatic conflict between Spain and Allied powers - starving Nazi military industrial complex of tungsten was so important, UK and USA had to forcefully coerce Spain to stop its exports of the metal to Germany
p8KZ8 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger had saved a man from drowning while vacationing in Hawaii in 2004.
gGV4 TIL in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
gMJ4L TIL that Bank of America was originally founded as Bank of Italy, in America.
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.