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18th century italian play boy, alessandro volta, used to sing the song "danger! high voltage" to pick up women in clubs. later, scientists pioneering the study of electricity drew a comparison between the sensation of being electrocuted and the song's "electrifying" attitude, and named the famous unit in his honor
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Michael Faraday was sad when they named capacity after him bc he thought they were making a fat joke about how much he could eat. The other scientists felt bad and to this day nobody dares make capacitors larger than a milliFarad, kind of like nobody makes more than 9 symphonies
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Despite all my rho, i am still limited by Carnot
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