The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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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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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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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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