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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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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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    The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
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    Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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    Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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    Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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