A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
10
In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
29
Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
9
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
130
It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
13
Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
0
There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
23