Lord Palmerston, who died in 1865, came up with a rather 'obvious' death-bed quote; "Sie, my dear doctor?" he wheezed, "That's the LAST thing I'll do!"


In the 1968 Olympics, in the thin air of of Mexico City, American Bob Beamon smashed the long-jump world record with an enormous leap of 8.9 metres, unsurpassed for 23 years


The Academy of Painting in Londons Lincoln Inn Fields opened the first school in Britain for "art and drawing from life" in 1711, under a leading painter of the time, Kneller


The cattle grid installed on the A4117 near Ludlow in 1982, incorporated a built-in escape ramp so that hedgehogs could negotiate it safely.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind