Thursday 11 April 2019

Things I Leaned Today - 11th April 2019

The brutalist architecture of the Hotel du Lac dominates the...

The brutalist architecture of the Hotel du Lac dominates the neighbourhood off Avenue Bourguiba. in Tunis-Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia - North Africa
- The word 'Yakuza' comes from the name of the unluckiest hand in a Japanese card game.

- There is a Natural History Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire.

- A man has just spent 3 years driving from Amsterdam to Sydney in an electric car.

- There is only one free ambulance service in Mogadishu, Somalia.

- Swiss men voted against giving Swiss women the vote in a 1959 referendum.

- There was a WWE wrestling champion called 'The Iron Sheikh'.

- Dooley Wilson, best known as Sam from Casablanca, couldn't play the piano and was actually a drummer.

- A hotel in Tunisia probably inspired the shape of Star Wars' Jawa Sandcrawlers.

- Birmingham is now home to the world's biggest Primark.

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