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TIL: Bank of America was originally called Bank of Italy

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OG7GX TIL that before Charles Fisk started the successful C.B. Fisk organ company, he had unknowingly built equipment Fat Man atomic bomb during World War II.
Z8VMG TIL Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box" was influenced after Layne Staley had a dinner conversation on how veal was made from calves raised in small boxes. This eventually inspired him to write the lyrics about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.
ZpgmR TIL The first digital computer weighed 30 tons & was 30 m long. But when integrated circuits were invented, the same computer would weigh a few grams & measure 7.44 mm by 5.29 mm.
b6PpQ TIL Scientists discovered 'dark oxygen' is produced by metal nodules splitting seawater 5km deep in the ocean.
Bwnb TIL that there’s a man who shops at Trader Joe’s in Seattle and buys things in bulk and then transports them up to Vancouver to his own store called “Pirate Joe's” because there are no Trader Joe’s in Canada. He’s gotten banned at some Trader Joe’s and sometimes has to put on disguises to shop.