The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
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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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Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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