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No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline
There was a mythical bird called the Chick-Charnie Owl — it was Caribbean, it was on Andros Island. It was based on a real owl, which had gone extinct a few hundred years before. As a young man, Neville Chamberlain was…
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Almost every Englishman at the Battle of Agincourt ate a small amount of soil just before the battle started.
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One of the characters in Henry V is Falstaff. He is based on a real person who was not called Falstaff, but was called Falstaff, who was a famous person who was at the battle and later went on to run a pub in Southwark.
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The Scottish National Library has an article from 2016 headlined, "Yes, we have colouring books in our library, but sorry, you can't colour them in." This was just clarifying what you couldn't do with colouring library…
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