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TIL a Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn’t want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.

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lG4a TIL “outlaw” originally meant “outside the protection of the law” so you could rob or kill them without legal consequences.
Kdl9 TIL: That men are more likely to be victims of dating violence than women. And that women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack, and abuse” their partners.
kJkE7 TIL On average, a person passes gas around 14 times a day. That’s roughly once every 1.5 hours!
nWnDY TIL why Roman concrete beats all competitors
0drp TIL in the 1970s there was a Utopian village in Nigeria where there were no cemeteries because the villagers thought they were immortal.