The first robot was invented in the 1770s!
Robots are a thing of the 21st
century now but do you know that the first robot was actually invented in the
1770s?! In the 1770s Pierre Jaquet-Droz invented a robot. It resembled a boy. He
named the robot “The Writer” because it held a goose feather pen in his hand over
a writing pad. At the time people called the robot an “automaton”. The robot could be
used to write. To make the robot write you had to feed the text by changing the
letters on a wheel. It also dipped the quill the ink, shook off the excess ink
and only then wrote. The robot is still working and is displayed at Musee d’
Art et d’Histoire in Switzerland.
People never ate strawberries as a fruit!
We all have eaten strawberries and have
always eaten them as fruits, but do you know that they were actually used as a
medicinal herb. In 13th century France, strawberries were used to cure
indigestion. The fruit leaves and root too worked as a medicine. The leaves and
roots were also used to cure gout. Strawberries were also used to cure sunburn,
bad breath, and clean teeth.
Aladdin isn’t an Arabian Nights story!
Most of us must have read the story of Aladdin. Aladdin
is often related with the Arabian Nights. But the story was only added a 100
years later by a French translator. Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves was also not part of the original Arabian Nights.
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