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The Free State of Ikaria was an independent country from July to November 1912, between the islanders expelling a Turkish garrison and it becoming part of Greece.

The island’s isolation made it a common place to exile dissidents during the Greek Civil War and the Junta rule.

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At over 4 million tonnes, Romania’s ‘Casa Poporului’ is the world’s heaviest building.

Built in Bucharest as a palace on the instruction of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, it’s now the world’s largest civilian administration building, though less than half of its space is in actual use.

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The EU organic logo is compulsory for all pre-packaged organic food produced in the European Union.

It can only be used on products that contain at least 95% organic ingredients and are certified organic by an authorised body.

The remaining 5% requires strict conditions.

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Founded in 1088, the University of Bologna is the world’s oldest university in continuous operation.

Initially set up to study Roman Law, it played a central role in the sciences during the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance with many prominent alumni and faculty.

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On 20 June 1944, a German A-4 test rocket became the first man-made object to reach space.

Launched from the Peenemünde Army Research Centre, MW 18014 reached an apogee of 176 km, beyond the Kármán line at 100 km that now defines the start of space.

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Millvina Dean, the youngest survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died exactly 98 years after the ocean liner’s launch.

RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast on 31 May 1911.

It sank in 1912 with nine-week-old Millvina as a survivor.

She died in Southampton on 31 May 2009.

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‘Betteridge’s law of headlines’ states that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

The law is named after British technology journalist Ian Betteridge, who coined the adage in 2009 stating that it demonstrates the writer is not confident of a yes.

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TheAlhambrais a palace and fortress complex inGranada, Spain, and the only well-preserved palace of the medieval Islamic world. Construction began in 1238 underMuhammad I of...

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In 1990, King Baudouin of Belgium abdicated for one day.

The king didn’t want to give royal assent to a bill legalising abortion.

Belgium’s constitution doesn’t allow monarchs to withhold royal assent so abdication for one day was found as a solution to pass the bill.

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Tripedalia cystophorais a species ofbox jellyfishin the familyTripedaliidae. It is native to the Caribbean Sea and the central Indo-Pacific. Its translucent...

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Paris, the city, is not named after Paris, the prince from Greek mythology.

While many places are named after gods or mythical figures, the French capital is named after the Parisii, a Gallic tribe that lived along the river Seine from the 3rd century BCE.

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According to legend, kissing the Blarney Stone, a limestone block built into Ireland’s Blarney Castle, endows the kisser with ‘the gift of the gab’.

The supposed gift of great eloquence has made many statesmen, actors and writers try to kiss the stone.

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The name of the famous German composer is Ludwig van Beethoven, not Ludwig von Beethoven.

A ‘von’ might be expected with a German but Ludwig’s father was originally from Mechelen in present-day Belgium so their last name uses the Flemish ‘van’.

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The English Premier League, the world’s most popular football league, attracts so much international talent that no English manager has ever won it.

Most successful to date has been Sir Alex Ferguson from Scotland, who has won 13 times with Manchester United.

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Helsinki’s Kruunuvuori Bridge opened in April 2026 as the longest bridge in the world built exclusively to serve pedestrians, cyclists and trams.

The 1191 metre long bridge, connecting two parts of Helsinki across the sea, was designed with a service life of 200 years.

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