FUN FACTS

Beauty and the Beast was written to help girls accept arranged marriages. The original version was a 1740 story by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, in which the beast was a hideous combination of an elephant and a fish. According to children’s literature academic Maria Tatar, the tale was written in order to encourage girls to accept arranged marriages, “for an alliance that required effacing their own desires and submitting to the will of a monster”.

Quote of the week.

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell Brunch was invented to cure hangovers. The millennial’s favourite meal was invented in 1895 by English writer Frank Beringer, who prescribed an alternative to the traditional Sunday dinner that he dubbed ‘brunch’. He argued that waking up early was no fun for those who had had wild Saturday nights.

By the numbers.

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The earliest sign of humans performing dentistry was 9025

The distance in kilometres from which snakes can still feel an earthquake.

400 billion

years ago (in 7000BC).

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The amount of time a snail can sleep. t of can The number of Lego The numb ber of Lego pieces in the world pieces in the world in 2020. William ‘Willy’ Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool to a British mother and a German father. He was the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. When AngloGerman relations started heating up due to his uncle’s behaviour, Willy published an essay in Look magazine entitled Why I Hate My Uncle. As war broke out, he moved his family to the United States, where he tried to enlist in the US Navy but was turned down. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Franklin D Roosevelt took a second look at Willy’s application and finally approved him to engage in the fight against the Nazis.

This month in history

1666 – The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in Pudding Lane. Over three days more than 13,000 houses were destroyed. 1893 – New Zealand is first to grant women the right to vote. 1939 – Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany on September 3, after its invasion of Poland two days earlier. 1960 – The Flintstones premieres on TV. It ran for six years until April 1, 1966. 1972 – Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic Team were killed during an attack on the Olympic Village in Munich. 1994 – The U.S. Army closed its headquarters in Berlin, ending the American military presence after nearly half a century.

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