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ALFRED
During the reign of Alfred the Great in England, laws were introduced to make people... MORE

BISCUITS
The word 'biscuit' comes from the French for 'twice cooked'. In September 2001, a biscuit taken... MORE

DOUGHNUTS
The doughnut (or donut) began life in Holland as 'oly koeks' ('oil cakes') made by... MORE

FOOD
In a week, the average person in Britain eats 329g of cakes and biscuits and... MORE

FRUITCAKE
Assumption Abbey in Ava, Missouri, in the Ozark mountains, is the only Trappist monastery in... MORE

INVESTMENT
A fruitcake made in 1941 was auctioned for $525 by an Ohio company at the... MORE

SHOPPING TROLLEYS
The world's first shopping trolley first arrived on the aisles of a supermarket in Oklahoma,... MORE

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The Italian Salvino d'Armato introduced spectacles to Florence in 1268, but they were of a... MORE

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The first tattoos were carried out by the Egyptians, possibly as early as 4000BC. The... MORE

IMPLANT
A candidate in Venezuela's 2010 National Assembly elections held a fund-raising raffle in which the... MORE

PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Recent research by Rupert Sheldrake has produced evidence that dogs can sense when their owners... MORE

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ELIZABETH II
Queen Elizabeth's middle names are Alexandra Mary. She was born by Caesarean section at 17... MORE

OLYMPIC GAMES
Nobody knows when the first Olympic Games took place. There was certainly such a festival at... MORE

CANNABIS
A caretaker at a zoo in Austria was sacked in September 2010 after it was... MORE

COMPUTATION
Notches on animal bones show that people have been making computations since around 30,000BC. A... MORE

ROOF
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