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374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark
He has a brother who is named Heston after Heston services. Both boys in this family are named after service stations. His mum was interviewed — there was this piece in the Mail about this electric forecourt service…
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Newport Pagnell beat Watford Gap by about two weeks in 1960 to become the first motorway service station.
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The Toddington service station that this guy is named after used to do a good thing, which I think all service stations should, where they had a power nap scheme — you could rent a room for three hours.
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According to Francis Rossi of Status Quo, Watford Gap used to be where groupies hung out because they knew that all the bands would stop there on their way to a gig or back from a gig.
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There was a regiment called the Harlem Hellfighters. That was their nickname and they were the 369th U.S. infantry, largely recruited from Harlem. So it had a lot of musicians in it, the regiment.
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In 1938, Cab Calloway published Cab Calloway's Cat-A-Log, A Hepster's Dictionary, which was the first dictionary written by an African American, and it was the Jive Language Reference Book of the New York Public…
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This one in the international exhibition in 1906 went into Lake Victoria in Christchurch. It was so popular that 1,967,682 people visited it at a time when the whole population of New Zealand was 975,000 — more than…
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There was basically the argument between two rivers in America, the Roe River and the D River, about which was the shortest. The Guinness Book of Records had always said that the D River was the shortest.
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Action Park is more famous on the Internet for having this incredible water slide, which had a loop-the-loop at the bottom, which was only open for one month in 1985.
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My favourite waterslide I've ever been on is in the Gold Coast and if you do live in Australia and you haven't been to it, you've got to.
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Scientists in the South Pole are starting to speak with an Antarctic accent. This was studied by the University of Munich, who wanted to see what effect being isolated in a place like Antarctica would have on a communal…
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