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    The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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    Chinese General With Only 100 Men Made An Army of 150,000 Retreat
    According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000. He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
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    Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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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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    London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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