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ELEMENTS
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LONGFELLOW
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CAMEL
The camel has no gall bladder and, despite the hump, the backbone of a camel... MORE
GIGGLE
The earliest recorded appearance of the verb 'to giggle' in the English language was in... MORE
CHROMOSOME
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200. ... MORE
PIGEON
The British royal family has kept racing pigeons since 1886 when King Leopold of Belgium... MORE
VAMPIRES
The earliest reference to vampires in England occurs in Walter Map's De Nagis Curialium, written... MORE
NOISE
According to a study at University College London and Newcastle University in 2012 in which... MORE
LONDON
The first escalator on the London Underground was installed at Earls Court station in 1911.
Initially,... MORE
GOD
The International Association for Divine Taxonomy was founded by the American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats,... MORE
GAMBLING
In 1996, a French gambler, annoyed at being charged 3.7 million francs ($730,000) on his... MORE
PEPYS
The first time the diarist Samuel Pepys drank tea was on September 25, 1660 when... MORE
ELIZABETH I
The Dictionary of National Biography entry on Queen Elizabeth I says: 'she swore, she spat... MORE
BRITANNIA
The Roman-Celtic goddess Britannia first appears on coinage of Antoninius Pius in the second century.... MORE
CHILDREN
'Mummy' is the first word uttered by 30 per cent of English-speaking babies, while 45... MORE
