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Pineapples are so plentiful in Natal at certain seasons that they are not worth carting to market, and so are often given to pigs.
— The Nelson Evening Mail, September 27 1906
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The French king Louis XIII was known as ‘the Just’ because he was born under the sign of the Libra.
Maxwell Branning is reported to have caused the Walford bus crash.
The original name for Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye estate was to have been ‘Shame Lady’.
An early form of the asterisk was used by Aristarchus to identify lines replicated between the Iliad and Odyssey.
A weekly bulletin of international news is broadcast in Latin by Finland’s Yleisradio Oy, on Friday evenings. Pronunciation is classical.
‘Ananias’, ‘Azarias’ and ‘Misael’ refer to the same Biblical characters as ‘Shadrach’, ‘Meshach’ and ‘Abednego’.
Ceylon tea is now more expensive to produce than it is worth on the international market.
The Quaggy River flows 17 miles through the South-East London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, and Lewisham.
A standard-class one-way ticket from Ashford, Kent, to Ashford, Surrey, costs £34.10, off-peak.
The people of the South Sudan believe that the moon is the property of the white man.
Don Quixote was printed in a first edition of 400 copies. Most of them were despatched to the Americas, where they were lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba.
Stephanie Davis says Jeremy McConnell is 100% the father of her son.
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