1. Scotsman John Logie Baird transmitted the first television image on October 2, 1925.
2. BBC went off the air for nearly seven years during WWII. A Mickey Mouse cartoon was the last to air. BBC returned in 1946 when the war ended.
3. Philio Farnsworth, the inventor of the first fully-functional and complete all-electronic television, actually didn't like TV that much.
4. High-definition television actually started in 1936.