The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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"Yo momma" jokes/insults were invented by Shakespeare.
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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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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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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