It’s been calculated that, on some planets, the atmospheres are so super-dense that, should we be standing and just looking ahead of ourselves, we’d see the backs of our own heads!
That would mean some people would see themselves talking. 
Make that seven.
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Before the discovery of the fruit the colour orange used to be called yellow-red.
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The Beatles Abbey Road was not named after the studio.At the time it was called EMI Studios.They only changed it after the album became so successful.
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In Victorian times it was considered good luck if the wedding ring was dropped during the ceremony. (Presumably if it was found again afterwards).
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The number plate on the VW Beetle in the famous Abbey Road album cover was probably the most stolen number plate in the world. The original was never found, but I believe some of the replacements were, and there are several replicas of around the world.
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Butterscotch was invented in Doncaster…
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Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but for butterscotch, the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack as with toffee.[1] Often credited with their invention, Parkinson’s of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town’s best-known exports.[2] They became famous in 1851 when Queen Victoria was presented with a tin when she visited the town.[3] Butterscotch sauce, made of butterscotch and cream, is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
The term butterscotch is also often used more specifically for the flavour of brown sugar and butter together even if the actual confection butterscotch is not involved, such as in butterscotch pudding (a type of custard).
So are you a ‘Soft Crack’ person…or ‘Hard Crack’?
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Oh I’m a big softie, although I used to make toffee with/for my kids. The black treacle toffee certainly got everyone going. 
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In days of yore, funerals were often held at the church gates, not in the church. The entrance to the churchyard had a covered roof area often with one or two sets of gates, known as Lytchgates.
Sometimes the ceremony would be performed there, then the mourners would leave, the outer gates closed, the inner gates opened, and the decedant taken to the graveyard.
Sometimes the body on its bier would be left there under watch from bodysnatchers for up to several days whilst waiting for the vicar to come and perform the burial service.
This type of entrance symbolised a gateway leading from this world into the next, a place to signify the transition from un-consecrated to consecrated ground.
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And if you were really rich you could get buried in the church.I’ve been in some with their inscriptions on the floor.
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In the UK, church bells must always be “parked” hanging down for safety. Before they can be used they are worked up until they are upside down ready for ringing. After use they must be worked down again. This is to prevent injury or death from someone getting tangled in a bell-rope should the bell accidently tip over, dragging someone up then dropping them down again.
There are some exceptions where bells are so big and heavy that it would take two hours or more to work a bell up or down. Some bells are so huge that they each need two bell-ringers.
These bells need a special licence that allow them to be locked off in the up position.
Where a fatal accident occurs involving a bell, the bell becomes the property of the crown.
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I bet he had well developed forearms…
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Oh dear, took a while to get it. You are a card.
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How did you know how to do anything?
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
Since she was acquitted of all crimes, the rhyme is legally an unproven slanderous accusation, and in any case is forensically inaccurate.
Ms Borden’s mother died of natural causes, so there was never any truth in the suggestion that Lizzie Borden killed her.
Her stepmother died of some seventeen axe blows and her father died of some dozen or so axe blows, both killed by a person or persons unknown.
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Other Monks Mr Smith…
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I thought telling men what to do was women’s work.
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The Romans invaded England. They didn’t realise that the North Sea was tidal so the lost a lot of ships.
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