The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.
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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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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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