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TIL The First Photograph Ever Taken in 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce it was captured using a technique Niépce invented called heliography.

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Y77lx TIL that wood frogs from Alaska can hold its pee for up to eight months, all through the long winter before relieving themselves.
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.
wLE5W TIL Humans account for just 0.01% of Life on Earth and have caused the loss of around 80% of wild land and marine mammals, and 50% of plants.
EPb7 TIL the towers at the startup of the ps2 represented how many games you’d played
PY1ww TIL that architects can design a home or building with a glass structure that lets cool air in the bottom and releases warm air at its top. This is known as a solar chimney and works off similar principles of regular fire chimneys