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Hiccupping for too long can be fatal. The 'hair perm' is over 4,000 years old.
Celtic New Year's Eve was on October 31st. The Christian Church countered this 'Pagan Festival' by moving 'All Hallows Day' to November 1st, later becoming 'Halloween'. American Indians were known to use binding and pieces of timber to reshape their children's heads.
Homing pigeons navigate by following roads, even turning at corners and intersections. Rowland Hill was knighted for inventing the adhesive postage stamp in 1837.
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