What was the first battery?

Did you know the battery inside your favorite toy actually started with... a dead frog?! In this shockingly fun episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn travel back in time to the 1700s to uncover the wild and weird true story of how the very first battery was invented! Imagine trying to turn on a flashlight using a slimy swamp frog. That is exactly what Italian scientist Luigi Galvani accidentally discovered when a static spark made a dead frog's leg violently kick! But the scientific mystery doesn’t stop there. Meet Alessandro Volta, the brilliant (and slightly gross) physics professor who tasted metal experiments on his own tongue to prove where the electricity was really coming from! Discover how Volta stacked tiny discs of copper and zinc with cardboard soaked in saltwater to create the "voltaic pile"—the world’s first continuous battery that trapped lightning in a stack of coins. From twitching zombie frogs to the massive batteries that power today's electric cars, you won't believe how this world-changing invention began. Tune in for laughs, wild science history, and a fun battery brain quiz!