If the imminent change to the law on Royal succession had been implemented during the reign of Queen Victoria, her eldest child, daughter Victoria would have become Queen.

Kaiser Wilhem II would have been King in 1914.

Our current Queen would be Friederike von der Osten, a doctor from Halle in Germany

There is a photo of Muhammad Ali in a boxing stance that was taken underwater.

He saw it as a great publicity photo, so he did it.

Even though he can't swim.

And here it is, SF:

http://ali.shop.sportstoday.com/Product.aspx?pc=4UAM117

I'd never seen it until a few years ago when there was a really good programme on one night on BBC2 (I think) about some of the icon photographs of out time and interviews with the people who took some of them.
It's a brilliant shot.

The Canary Islands probably get their name from the Latin name Canariae Insulae, meaning "Island of the Dogs", a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria.

According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the Mauretanian king Juba II named the island Canaria because it contained "vast multitudes of dogs of very large size"

Tommy Toes     18 Jul 13 13:36 

(especially as your birthday is coming up!)


Blimey hope I am invited to the big 70  party

Some more photos of The Greatest, in fighting mood, posing mood and mischievous mood

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http://i44.tinypic.com/15h0t3t.jpg

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http://i41.tinypic.com/2qk79ft.jpg

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http://i41.tinypic.com/rw6vjk.jpg

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http://i40.tinypic.com/rvfv4g.jpg

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http://i43.tinypic.com/2vctjx0.jpg

Gutted TT

I love birfday cake as well

That underwater pic is cracking.

On average,women stare in the mirror 38 times a day.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2097717/Looking-mirror-DOES-make-anxious-looks.html

When child actor Jackie Coogan turned 18 he found out all his money ($68 million)
had been spent by his mother who argued "No promises were ever made to give Jackie
anything.Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents." Coogan's
Bill was passed to protect child actors.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan

A West African tribe,the Ashanti,take dreams so seriously that they would allow
a husband to take legal action against another man if that man had an erotic
dream about his wife.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti_people

The status of the chameleon in Spain was changed from "endangered" to "near
threatened" after it was discovered that the number of individuals had been vastly
underestimated.The experts conducting the original census couldn't see most
chameleons as they were well camourflaged.
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http://macroinstantes.blogspot.de/2010/07/en-busca-de-los-camaleones-salvajes.html

Humans are the only mammals with permanently swollen breasts.We have
breasts all the time,other animals only have them when nursing.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/14/breast-size-evolution

A former teacher named Mohan Kumar would befriend young women,have sex with them
and convince them to take a "moning after pill".Little did they know,the morning
after pills were cyanide capsules made by him.He killed twenty women this way.
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http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-22/mangalore/28112440_1_serial-killer-cyanide-cell-phone

Metallica's James Hetfield wrote the song "The God That Failed" because
Hetfield's mother died due to Christian-Science beliefs influencing her
to reject cancer treat ment.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_That_Failed_%28song%29

There’s an island in the Bahamas which is only inhabited by Swimming Pigs.
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http://helablog.com/2013/07/amphibious-bacon-island-inhabited-only-by-swimming-pigs/

The Bible has been translated into Hawaiian Pidgin.It is called "Da Jesus Book."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Jesus_Book

Men have nipples because mammary cells are formed in the embryo before the
Y chromosome determines that the embryo is male.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/why-men-have-nipples.htm

On average,22 War Veterans commit suicide every single day.
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http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/01/286701/22-us-veterans-commit-suicide-daily/

In the 1930s,penicillin was so precious that it was re-extracted from the urine of
patients to conserve every last bit of it.
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http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8325/8325penicillin.html

There's a whole demographic of "Homeless" Japanese youth who live and sleep
solely in Internet Cafes.

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http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/the-lost-generation-of-Japanese-internet-cafe-kids

You can be a Hindu Atheist - you can deny the existence of God,yet believe in the
spiritual teachings and live a "dharmic" life.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism_in_Hinduism

Christian,Judaic and Islamic texts all ban interest on loans.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury#Religious_context

"Finnegans Wake",a book by James Joyce,is widely considered to be one of the
most difficult works of fiction to read.Readers and commentators have yet to
come to a unanimous agreement on who the characters are and or what the plot is.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake#Difficulties_of_plot_summary

A man from India started planting trees when he was 16 years old.He is now 47
and lives in his own forest of 1,360 acres housing rhinos,tigers and elephants.
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http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/indian-man-single-handedly-plants-a-1360-acre-forest

For each older brother a boy has,he is 33% more likely to be homosexual,but
this isn't the same for women.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251939690315X

Nostradamus' best-selling book during his lifetime was a recipe book for jam

If you are awarded with one of five orders of knighthood by the pope,you can enter
the Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome by horse.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Sylvester

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon,they honoured cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.

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http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/space-and-aviation/yury-gagarin/

The Nijo Palace has special floors that squeak when walked upon,a sound that is
very similar to the Nightingale birds.So when attackers tried to kill the
Shogun,they would give their position away,but would only think that the birds
outside are chirping.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nij%C5%8D_Castle#Ninomaru_Palace

When members of a choir sing,their heart rates become synchronized along the melody
and rythm.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/09/200390454/when-choirs-sing-many-hearts-beat-as-one
utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20130714&utm_source=mostemailed

Scientists have discovered that the Earth is surrounded by a "bubble" of live
bacteria-at 33,000 feet.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/bacteria-33000-feet

Lack of sleep plays a key role in activating brain regions that contribute
excessive worrying.

http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/feeling-edgy-get-some-sleep/

There is a pepper grown in Japan called the Shishito pepper.Only 1 out 10 is
spicey and there is no way of knowing beforehand.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishito

A 70's cartoon inspired Japanese to adopt baby raccoons as pets.As a result,Japan
imported thousands of raccoons from America.Seeing how violent they could
be,families released them into the forests following one scene in the
cartoon.Raccoons multiplied and damaged 80% of Japan's temples.

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/lessons/raccoons-gone-wild/enhanced-video-resource/7814/

Melbourne,Australia was originally called Batmania and it's founding document is
called "Batman's Treaty".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%27s_Treaty

A businessman from Turkey replaced his Villa fence with a long aquarium

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmZwbu2h0c

Elephants are the only mammal other than humans that have chins.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin

You are required to vote in Australia;if you don't,you face a fine.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_electoral_system#Compulsory_voting