Martin Frobisher

Martin Frobisher

The streets of London were once paved in gold called fool's gold. Martin Frobisher shipped over a thousand tons of fool's gold from what's now Canada to London under the impression that he was shipping gold ore. It was later discovered that it was iron pyrite and it was used for road metalling.

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