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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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