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The national anthem of the Netherlands (Het Wilhelmus) is the oldest national anthem in the world. The music appeared in 1572, the lyrics in 1590. The Japanese anthem has the oldest lyrics/text from the ninth century, but the music is from 1880. Source: Albert Siersema.
SMERSH, the Soviet spy organization made familiar by James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, was a real KGB department. Named after its motto SMERT SHpionen ('Death to Spies'), SMERSH had the job of eliminating enemies of the Soviet Union who lived abroad. Its most important victim was Leon Trotsky, the former Bolshevik leader in the 1917 Revolution, who was murdered in Mexico in 1940. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts"
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.
FDR was the most superstitious president -- he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also wouldn't sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.-
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Gerald Ford was once a male model.
Dinner guests in medieval England were expected to bring their own knives to the table -- hosts did not provide them. The fork did not appear until the sixteenth century and knives-and-forks were not in general use in England until the seventeenth century. Source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"
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