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80: No Such Thing As A Mousetrap-Remote-Control
The first ever pencils were used to draw on sheep. I found this out at the Cumberland Pencil Museum, which is an amazing museum in Keswick — it features, among many other things, a giant collage of Chris Evans made of…
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The Cumberland pencil museum says that in 1650, graphite was briefly more valuable than gold. They deliberately only mined it for short amounts of time in the year to keep the price up, because they had a monopoly on it…
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