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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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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