A range of lockets launched at the 1996 National Funeral Directors' Convention allowed the wearer to carry someone's ashes around their necks.


England goalkeeper Gordon Banks lost an eye in a car crash in 1972, ending his football career.


Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute jump from a balloon above Paris in 1797, but was airsick on the way down as his invention lacked the hole in the top, to steady it!


The Duke & Duchess of Windsor met Adolf Hitler in 1937, on a trip to study 'Social Conditions' in Germany, and came away saying they had been "Thoroughly charmed". (Well, it's well known even MONSTERS can be charming!

DM

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind