There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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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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