Here are some fun facts in photography that you may find amusing:

• The word “photography” originates from Greek, meaning drawing with light.
• The word camera originates from the Latin word “camera obscura” which means “dark chamber”.
  
• The first ever camera described in the history was a pin hole camera, dating back to 4th or 5th century.
• 35mm format in still photography was first introduced by Leica in 1925.
• The world’s first photo was taken by a French scientist, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce with a camera obscura in 1826.
• The first 35mm SLR camera was introduced by Ihagee – the Kine Exakta 1.
• There is an average of 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day.
• Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell produces the world’s first color photograph in 1861.
• The most viewed photograph in history is the Windows XP’s default wallpaper.
• The first known photograph of a tornado was taken on 28 August 1884, about 22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota.

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