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The History Compound

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Kuba

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“History is a compound of poetry and philosophy.”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Facts of the Moment

Octopuses have three hearts.(1)

Kangaroos have three vaginas.(2)

Three of Fidel Castro's sons, Alexis, Alexander, Alejandro, are named after Alexander the Great.(3)

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.'(4)

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(1) http://animal.discovery.com/invertebrates/octopus/

(2) http://news.discovery.com/human/dnews-nuggets-120417.html
Female kangaroos' vaginas consist of one opening with three branches. The question of 'what denotes a vagina' is still argued late into the night by The QI Elves.

(3) The New Yorker, 31 July 2006

(4) http://www.authorama.com/three-men-in-a-boat-1.html
The fourth character in Three Men in a Boat is, of course, Montmorency the dog.

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