Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- Who invented the telescope?
“Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lipperhey applied for the first known patent for a telescope in 1608.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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