5 October 2017
The library at Balmoral is heated by a two-bar electric fire.
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The Tudors invented flat-pack furniture centuries before IKEA.
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The population of Qatar is 2.6 million, of whom nearly 90% are migrant workers.
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The Netherlands is the world’s largest producer of seeds.
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An eight-year-old St Bernard from Sioux Falls, South Dakota has broken the Guinness World Record for the dog with the world’s longest tongue.
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Toire no Hanako-san is a Japanese ghost that haunts school lavatories.