The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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 Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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A WW2 observation pilot, bored of not being in combat, decided to strap 6 bazookas to his plane. He destroyed several enemy tanks and vehicles. His name was Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter, aka Bazooka Charlie / The Mad Major.
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