The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
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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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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
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