1. The UK’s first motorway opened in Lancashire in 1958
2. Stainless steel was discovered by a Lancashire-born metallurgist investigating how to stop the corrosion of metal in gun barrels
3. England’s first ever chess club opened up in 1857 in Lancaster
4. The first KFC branch to ever open in the UK opened its doors in Preston
5. Lancashire is responsible for giving Fisherman’s Friends to the world
6. Writer George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and The Road to Wigan Pier, was born in India, but started his writing career in Lancashire.
7. The first pair of slippers were produced in Rossendale in 1874 by John William Rothwell.
8. The home of the world’s first pencil is Penwortham
9. Perspex was first manufactured under the trademark in Darwen on 16 November, 1934.
10. Mass fingerprinting was first carried out in Blackburn in May 1948
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