The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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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 first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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