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TIL that Kodak invented the first digital camera, then went bankrupt because they didn’t convert to digital

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D9Pg TIL Cost of lab-grown burger patty dropped from $325,000 to $11 in 2 years
j6jlX TIL "Tater Tots" were invented by Nephi Grigg, co-founder of Ore-Ida in 1953 using excess potato shavings from making frozen french fries. Originally, these shavings were sold as livestock feed.
mNMo TIL that Tim Horton, founder of…well, Tim Horton’s, died because of a car accident while he was drunk and on barbiturates and being chased by the police.
wLWL8 TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.
w9mE TIL of Canada’s Apology Act, which states that a apology doesn’t constitute an admission of fault or liability