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Odds-n-sods

A collection of miscellany - or random bits and pieces which piqued my interest.

How radioactive is a person?

 

Do any migrating birds actually circumnavigate the Earth?

 

"Ghost" of Montrose air base to be honoured

 

Do hyrdogen-powered aeroplanes exist?

 

The poetry of subatomic particles

 

Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India

 

Who coined the word emoji?

 

The man who turned his home into a public library

 

Who invented the stethoscope?

 

Which is the oldest cricket club?

 

In the 19th century, was a giant pyramid proposed to hold five million dead Londoners?

 

Is Sir Peter Bazalgette, chairman of ITV, a descendant of Joseph Bazalgette, who installed London's 19th-century sewers?

 

What became of Oscar Wilde's sons Cyril and Vyvyan?

 

What was the purpose of the sinister-looking medieval doctor's plague mask?

 

How many British cities have an underground railway system?

 

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