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Hamlet had the longest role in a Shakespeare play with 1,422 lines.
It takes an aluminum can 2005 years to disintergrate.
A soldier who was hit in the scrotum by a bullet carried away his left testicle. The same bullet penetrated the left side of the abdomen of a 17 year old girl in a nearby house. 278 days later she gave birth to a healthy 8lb boy. 3 weeks later a Dr Capers operated on the baby and removed a smashed bullet. It was thought that the bullet had carried some sperm on it and had impregnated the young girl.
WW11 General George Patten competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the pentathalon.
Anthony Burgess was so emotionally involved in writing 'A Clockwork Orange' that he wrote it in a state of near drunkeness.
In 1911 three men were hanged in London for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenberry Hill. Their names were Green, Berry and Hill.
An average human male brain weighs 3.1lbs. .
In 1906 6 babies were born on board the German ship 'Grosser Kurfurst' one in first class, twins in second class, and triplets in third class.
In 1974, at the Pepperidge Farm plant in Pennsylvania, an employee was killed when he fell into a vat of chocolate. His name was Robert HERSHEY..
"Eaten out of house and home" comes from Shakespeare's Henry1V Part 11. Mistress Quickly complains that the overweight Sir John Falstaff "hath eaten me out of house and home".
In the 13th century, girl meant any young person, male or female. To distinguish between the two, a female was sometimes known as a gay girl and a male as a knave girl.........That's it for now.....VIP³
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