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The Word for daytime creatures is diurnal, for night ones – nocturnal and for those awake during the twilight hours-crepuscular’

The word journalist comes from journal which in turn comes from the word diurnal.

Ants, like all insects  have six legs, but each leg has three joints.

The first known roller skates were created in  the 1760’s and had a single line of wheels. In 1863 James Plimpton re invented them, placing twi pairs of wheels side by side.’

In order to give the public confidence to ride a new mode of transport, Bumper Harris, a man with a wooden leg, was employed to ride up and down the first escalator installed on the London Underground in 1811.

Hun horsemen used to tenderise their meat by placing it under the saddles before eating it raw.

A 2,300 year old seed found in an ancient tomb near Hiroshima around 1969 was planted and grown at the Yamaguchi University, It grew into a two metre high tree with several buds 0  and it actually blossomed.

In medieval Spain, young women kept toothpicks in their mouths to deter unwanted kisses

The first product to have a bar code was – Wrigley’s Chewing Gum.

The novelist Anthony Trollope invented the pillar box ( the red boxes that used to be used to post letters in.)

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