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If anything here is true, I apologise unreservedly. It is quite inadvertent. Verisimilitude is my aim, not truth! Not a bot. Not powered by AI. It really is one person's phenomenal polymathic ignorance on display.

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Did you know that the English Channel is called the Soup Lake by the Belgians?

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Did you know that the first football world cup was meant to be in 1928 but they couldn't agree where to play it?

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Did you know that the first electronic calculator was manufactured in 1932, and was the size of a briefcase?

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Did you know that the first settlements in the British Isles were in Wiltshire in 650BC?

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Did you know that the River Thames is longer than the River Rhine?

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Did you know that the fastest arthropod is the common slug which can travel at up to 5mph?

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Did you know that it is illegal to feed bread to the swans in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London?

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Did you know that Yorkshire Cricket Club originally played in yellow, not white?

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Did you know that Cleopatra, ruler of Egypt loved by Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar, was 6'2" (1.88m) tall?

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Did you know that the windiest wind ever recorded in the UK is windier than the windiest wind ever recorded in Sweden?

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Did you know that sea salt is saltier than mined salt?

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Did you know that the western-most point in metropolitan France is further west that the western-most point in Iceland?

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Did you know that the most abundant element in the Earth's core is Bismuth?

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Did you know that the statue on Nelson's Column, popularly thought to be Admiral Horatio Nelson, is in fact of Prime Minister Pitt the Elder?

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Did you know that a Standard Poodle is so called because they were once an emblem on the French flag?

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Did you know that film-maker Alfred Hitchcock was superstitious and avoided making any film with only 11 named characters?

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Did you know that the fastest stagecoach between Birmingham and London in the eighteenth century took only four hours?

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Did you know that most physicists are unsure about the number of zeros in a Tera-

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Did you know that an octave in medieval France covered nine tones, not eight?

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Did you know that one twelfth of a pint is properly called an Apostle?

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These are the real issues our politicians should be focusing on! Where are the ostrich/emu races?

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Did you know that an ostrich and an emu have never been set off together in a running race?

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Did you know that the 'chalk' for snooker, pool and billiards cues is made from dried, powdered rose hips?

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Did you know that Halley's comet began its never-ending journey around the sun in 367CE?

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Did you know that Bordeaux, in France, is home to the world's oldest clockmaker?

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Did you know that the source of the River Severn is in Birmingham?