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 Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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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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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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