Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!
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