Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- How did papermaking spread to the Islamic world?
“Papermaking spread from China to the Islamic world in the 700s, and the city of Samarkand became an important early center for making paper.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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