In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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