The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!
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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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Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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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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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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