The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world!
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Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In Ancient Egypt, some people paid their taxes in honey.
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Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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