Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were originally considered a delicacy, only enjoyed by those of the upper class.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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