The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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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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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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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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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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