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TIL of Phillppe Khan who in 1997 invented the camera phone.The first photo being of his new born daughter Sophie.

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nkaB TIL that in the last 64 years humans have slain 90% of the World’s sharks.
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veGj TIL that Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Kary Mullis stated that his LSD use greatly helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, a commonly used technique in molecular biology.
pbGQ TIL that Islamic war law as stated by Prophet Muhammad forbids the mutilation of bodies, the harming of trees, the killing of women, children and aged men, and explicitly says to leave those in the monastic services alone, among other laws.
WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".