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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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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