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When Wal-Mart was attempting to open stores in Germany, they had to withdraw their policy of requiring staff members to smile at customers, because German customers found it weird and off-putting.

Having a surname near the beginning of the alphabet makes you more likely to be recognised as an outstanding student than if your surname is at the end of the alphabet. he study that uncovered this was written in part by a researcher called Zax.

Then some of my friends would serve life sentences.

George III’s medical notes show that, on occasion, he passed blue urine.

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Queen guitarist Brian May has released a cologne which smells of badgers.

Same.

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1913, Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end racial segregation.

Groucho Marx and Alice Cooper became good friends after performing 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady' together at Frank Sinatra's birthday party.

An early mobile phone prototype appeared in a Pathé film in 1946. The narrator suggested a ‘young lady’ could use it at the shops to ‘call up the neighbours and tell them what she’s found', or that a man could use it to call his wife from the pub while pretending to be at work.

Texan authorities have apologised for texting citizens asking them to look out for a 3ft1 28-year-old with red hair and blue eyes who is wearing denim overalls, a stripy shirt and carrying a large knife. https://t.co/SGNazekjry

The first barcodes, invented in the early 1950s, were circular. https://t.co/FittQKQo4p

In the 1890s ‘To see one’s grandmother’ either meant ‘to have a nightmare’ or ‘to have the menstrual discharge’.