Episode
10: No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk
In 1923, Jockey Frank Hayes won a race in Belmont Park in New York, despite being dead.
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Queen Alexandra wanted the race to start on the lawn at Windsor Castle so that her children could watch from the nursery window. Then an extra mile was added to the race. Then, at the end of the race, 385 yards were…
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There's a professor from the University of Ljubljana who said he reckons a problem with the confusion is that Slovenia hasn't got a brand. Finland is Nokia, and Sweden has IKEA, and they need their own brand.
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You could buy heroin in Harrods, I think, to send to troops on the front line during the First World War.
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