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The game of marbles was first introduced into Britain by the Romans. The world championship is held every year in Sussex.
Not everyone likes wearing glasses, but in the Middle Ages, you could buy them from peddlers in the street and use them as ornaments!
Can you imagine how long it would take to count a million pounds?
If the money was in one pounds notes a bank clerk could count a break it would take at least eight days for him to work through a million.
It's strange to think that before pillarboxes and stamps existed, postmen, called letters from people and charging a halfpenny for the service of delivering them!
Pearls are very pretty, but did you know it can take an oyster seven years to make one?
Did you know that you share your birthday with about nine million other people around the world?
Is your surname Smith?
If it is, you're not alone. There are enough Smiths in England and Wales alone to fill the Wembley Stadium eight times over.
Did you know that people start to shrink after the age of about thirty? They don't shrink very much though, so your parents are not likely to vanish!
The Irish drink more tea per head than nay nation in the world.
In 1917 two little girls in Yorkshire, England, took picture of what they said were fairies. This aroused such interest that famous scientists and public figures went up to Yorkshire to see if they could prove that the photographs were fakes. Much to everybody's amazement, nobody could prove anything at all! In fact, it is still a mystery as to whether the pictures were genuine pictures of real fairies-and if they are fakes, how on earth did two young girls manage to do it and baffle all those experts? |
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