The world's first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot.
Why it is true
Scientists at Cambridge University were tired of walking to the breakroom only to find the coffee pot empty. They set up a camera that took three pictures a minute and sent them to their computers.
Source: Cambridge Archives
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