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TIL of the Photorevolver, a camera hidden inside a non-functional firearm invented in 1882, which allowed the user to pull the “gun’s” trigger to close the camera’s shutter. Only 14 photorevolvers were built, with only a handful thought to survive today, with prices between $50,000 and $120,000.

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5VeoR TIL until the early 1970s, funeral homes in the US doubled as ambulance services. If you were hurt or sick, you’d probably be transported to the hospital in a hearse.
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JY4Jv TIL About the UNIVAC which was the world's first commercially available computer. It weighed 16000 pounds, used 5000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1000 calculations per second.
woVK8 TIL that during the carnian age (232 million years ago) it rained for 1-2 million years straight almost everywhere according to scientists
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