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It was seen as commonplace for humans to sleep upside down like bats until the invention of the bed in 1894.

Before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, people had to tie themselves down if they wanted to go to sleep.

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The band "The Fratellis" are so named because they once found a 17th-century pirate ship hidden in a cave off the West Coast of Scotland.

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Before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, people had to tie themselves down if they wanted to go to sleep.

In the great freeze of 1855 it was so cold gravity froze, 1.5 million people could not hold on and are currently satellites in the troposphere.

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When Skara Brae was first 'discovered' after a storm blew away the sand it was buried under, the archaeology team working on the project actually discovered contraband tobacco in the shoreside part of the complex. It is thought that somebody had previously uncovered part of it beforehand but had not realised the full potential of the site.

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Footballer Roy Makaay was born Roy McKay, son of two Scottish parents, but legally changed his name on a stag do in Amsterdam aged 18 and found he was eligible to play for the Netherlands through a Dutch grandmother.

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