The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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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 first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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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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