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TIL that the first hand-held digital camera was invented in 1975 by engineer Steve Sasson for Kodak

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GbOE TIL we can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it's​ radioactivity inert
pYG8p TIL that The fate of the Mayflower remains unknown. However, some historians argue that it was scrapped for its timber, then used to construct a barn in Jordans, England.
PYWxL TIL - Victor Lustig, a German con artist, designed and sold a "money box" which he claimed could print $100 bills. A victim, sensing profits, would buy the machine for a high price. Stocked with six to nine genuine $100 bills for demonstration purposes, but after that it produced only blank paper.
9YGym TIL that the Judean Date Palm was extinct until scientists germinated 2,000 year old seeds to bring the tree back into existence. The seeds were discovered in an ancient jar in Israel, dated between 155 BC to 64 AD.
LQQ8r TIL that the entire score to Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ movie was a Tchaikovsky ballet. Disney writers came up the lyrics for ‘Once upon a dream’ and just laid them over the music.