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1. Sir Rowland Hill, a former schoolteacher, invented the postage stamp in 1837.
2. Big Ben is not a clock. It is actually a bell.
3. In 1990 Nelson Mandela became a free man after spending twenty-seven years in prison.
4. Avarice, otherwise known as greed, is one of the seven deadly sins.
5. Formed in London in 1985, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell make up the members of the British band, Erasure.
6. If you enjoy quizzes you will not suffer from this particular fear. The phobia known as Epistemophobia or Gnosiophobia is the fear of knowledge.
7. Located in the south western Pacific Ocean is Tonga, a kingdom that consists of around 170 islands.
8. To get the most out of your personal computer, you will need to install one of the operating systems, such as Windows or Unix.
9. You will need to climb up an amazing five hundred and thirty two steps to reach the Golden Gallery, the highest point of London's St. Paul's Cathedral.
10. An Italian by the name of Guglielmo Marconi sent the first ever radio signals, although the actual radio was invented by a Croat called Nikola Tesla.
11. Precipitation is the primary mechanism for transporting water from the atmosphere to the surface of the earth. Different forms of precipitation are rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail and snow.
12. In 1989, the all girl band known as Bananarama, released a cover version of Help, a song originally performed by The Beatles.
13. Bugs Moran was the main target for Al Capone's hit men in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A gangster by the name of Al Weinshank was mistaken for Moran and was shot dead along with six others by Capone's gang, who were disguised as cops.
14. After winning the Masters in 1997, the PGA Championship in 1999 and the U.S Open in 2000, the British Open was the only one of the four majors that Tiger Woods hadn't won. Going into the tournament at St Andrews in July 2000, many predicted it to be a foregone conclusion. They were right. Woods completed the Grand Slam and became the youngest golfer to do so.
15. In 2001 adventurer Jon Muir became the first person to make a solo-unassisted crossing of Australia, covering 2500 kilometres over four months. Hampered by starvation during his remarkable feat, he ate a mixture of berries and wild pigs and drank water collected from camel footprints, to survive.
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