Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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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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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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