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    The first sunglasses were worn by Chinese judges in the form of smoke coloured quartz lenses, used to hide their eye expressions in court.

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The BBC stopped television broadcasting with the onset of WW2

On the 1st September, 1939, with the onset of World War II, the BBC stopped making television broadcasts, and would not return until June 1946.

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