The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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During WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose!
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