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from my favourite edits
- ... that blue tits will peel wallpaper while searching for insects?
- ... that you are more likely to die on or near your birthday than at other times?
- ... that Kasongo Ilunga, DRC Minister for Foreign Trade in 2007, probably didn't exist?
- ... that Canford Cliffs was home to a controversial branch of HSBC that only served the rich?
- ... that Sheffield was once known as the People's Republic of South Yorkshire?
- ... that the Colorado River didn't flow into the ocean for 16 years?
- ... that the Westminster system of government can work without any political parties?
- ... that Tommy Wiseau compares himself to James Dean, Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams?
- ... that one person in every ten on the island of Pingelap is totally colour-blind?
- ... that T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Amy Lowell were all found in an anarchist Bomb Shop?
- ... that funeral trains once operated in many major cities?
- ... that Fanny Murray was the mistress of the inventor of the sandwich, once ate a £20 note between two pieces of bread, and was famous for being famous in the 18th century?
- ... that Hugh Franklin once beat Winston Churchill with a whip to protest police brutality at a suffragette march?
- ... that his sister Alice Franklin was honoured by the government for telling unmarried women to leave the country, but also enjoyed making fun of married women?
- ... that British Rail patented the design of a nuclear-powered flying saucer?
- ... that the Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015 was the only one that year where Labour Party won a Tory council?
- ... that the German government intends to pardon and compensate all gay men convicted under Paragraph 175?
- ... that the British government did the same thing?
- ... that post-truth politics has existed since at least the 17th-century pamphlet wars?
- ... that a dog is for life, not just for Christmas?
- ... that the structure of the pentaquark is still unknown?
- ... that successful British minor parties include Scottish Senior Citizens, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and Health Concern?
- ... that "Throw shoe! Bugger invaded Iraq! (6,4)" defines George Bush?
- ... that open and closed is replacing left and right in politics?
- ... that against a telling remark, an effective riposte is difficult?
- ... that a dining club based in a horse stable was the single biggest donor to Tory candidates in marginal seats?
- ... that printed calendars in the Ottoman Empire used five different date formats simultaneously?
- ... that Schwesta Ewa was stranded in West Berlin while attempting to flee Poland and became a prostitute, and then a successful rapper, but was arrested for pimping her own fans?
- ... that Quantum Experiments at Space Scale can beam unbreakable codes from China to Austria - but only when it's not in direct sunlight?
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Pickmere Telescope (part of MERLIN)
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Belgian farmhouse, Diegem
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