Penistone is a town South Yorkshire, England.
The “Make America Great Again” caps designed for the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign were made in China.
Women were not allowed to serve on Royal Navy submarines until 2011.
Lizards cannot breathe and walk at the same time.
The national anthem of Bangladesh includes the lines: “The fragrance from your mango groves makes me wild with joy.”
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12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
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The Dogon people of Mali rub fried onions on their bodies as perfume.
The sweet, seedless navel orange was discovered in the mid-1800s on a single branch of a sour orange tree in a Brazilian monastery. The fruit even has a ‘belly-button’ – hence its name.
Britain is the only country in Europe that allows children to stop studying history at 13.
The Bulgarian word for beans is ‘bob’.
Tony Blair once told Des O’Connor that when he was 14, he stowed away on a plane from Newcastle to the Bahamas. In Newcastle airport’s 61-year history, there has never been a flight to the Bahamas.
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“Several odd side-effects of eating a banana are not very well known; when eaten whole and sideways they may cause victims to smile or frown uncontrollably.”
– Phil Jupitus
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