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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The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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