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TIL that is was actually an engineer from Kodak that invented the digital camera. The rest is history.

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b9yXa TIL that the community of Puʻuwai, Hawaii and the entire island it is located on, is off limits to anyone except residents and official visitors. Tourists are not allowed.
64JZ TIL Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen formed a chisel out of his own frozen feces to free himself from an avalanche. He then amputated his own frozen toes with a hammer… without anesthesia.
6EAwJ TIL AlphaGo the AI that beat the World Go Champion Lee Sedol 4-1 in a best of five series, was defeated by it's third version AlphaGo Zero, 100-0. The original AlphaGo learnt from the data of Go matches played by humans, and AlphaGo Zero learnt by playing against itself, no data or human interaction
jNKDa TIL that the jolly fat person that people generally associate with Buddha is actually a different person - a Buddhist monk named Budai. Buddha himself is not usually depicted as fat.
P1pBJ TIL about Marvin Heemeyer, a man who destroyed buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, CO, as an act of revenge against the people who wronged him