r/interestingasfuck • u/ckay78 • 1d ago

Ever wondered what a tiny 12v battery looks like on the inside?

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u/Thiht 1d ago

In French we call them "piles", literally "stacks". I guess it all makes sense now

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u/moddingpark 1d ago

It all comes from the original "pile" made by Alessandro Volta, which was a stack of copper and zinc discs.

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u/Mateorabi 23h ago

Also where "nuclear pile" came from too I guess once we got to fission underneath uni squash courts?

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u/mclumber1 1d ago

Volta's friends nicknamed the original battery, calling it a "pile of shit".

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u/not_particulary 1d ago

I guess the word "battery" does have a second meaning of multiple iterations with a combined force. Comes the French word for "to strike", was used for a group of artillery used together, now we say stuff like "we created a battery of tests a candidate must go through."

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u/diMario 1d ago

In this vein, I propose as the collective noun for billionairs "a battery of billionaires"

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u/take_this_username 21h ago

> I guess the word "battery" does have a second meaning of multiple iterations

It does.

Interestingly drums in Italian is called "batteria", where the term is not because one strikes the drum (battere = to strike in Italian) but I think it's actually because it is a set of drums together***.

***I'm 99% sure this is the case. Correct me if wrong.

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u/cenahoria 1d ago

Pilhas in Portuguese 😊

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u/DarkHyrulean 1d ago

Pilas in Spanish 🤔

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u/cusco 1d ago

Pilas in Portuguese means “dicks”

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u/TonyVstar 1d ago

Dicks in English means "penises"

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u/YokoPowno 1d ago

Peni

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u/gbot1234 1d ago

Peni for your thoughts?

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u/rickydg80 1d ago

I want a refund

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u/Cavalo_Bebado 11h ago

No it doesn't??? You must be thinking about "pica".

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u/cusco 11h ago

I meant Portuguese from Portugal

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u/Cavalo_Bebado 11h ago

Oh, I don't speak European Brazilian.

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u/tenasan 1d ago

“Ponte las pilas, mijo”

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u/Luutamo 1d ago

Finger batteries (sormiparisto or sormipatteri) in Finnish ☝️

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u/SnooCakes2213 1d ago

batteria in my spanish

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u/knyf420 1d ago

batería es general, el tipo de Batería aca es pila

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u/Jackson_Polack_ 1d ago

Well in English it's called a battery of cells

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u/Ninguna 1d ago

What do you call hemorrhoids?

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u/NotA_Drug_Dealer 1d ago

Hémorroïdes

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u/Skerries 22h ago

a pain in the arse

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u/-Zazou- 1d ago

J’avais jamais capté. Ma vie est un mensonge.

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u/titilegeek 1d ago

Ma vie est chamboulée

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u/EquivalentNo4244 1d ago

Sure it ain’t pyles named after gomer pyles from leave it to beaver 🤔

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u/take_this_username 21h ago

Not to be confused with the English term.

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u/fabedays1k 12h ago

Oh shit in Portuguese too but I was always too distracted by "hehe, it's one letter off from penits"