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  1. Pontefract, Yorkshire
  2. 34 km
  3. 38.5°C in Faversham, Kent, England on 11 August 2003
  4. Three times: in 1908, 1948 and 2012
  5. over 80
  6. Mother Shipton’s Cave in Yorkshire has been a tourist attraction since 1630.
  7. French
  8. No. They are expensive, private schools which select pupils.
  9. Hay-on-Wye. It also has the world’s largest second-hand book market.
  10. Danish Vikings first settled in York in 867. They ruled the city until 954.
  11. Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534.
  12. Because Britain was the first country to issue national stamps.
  13. aluminium
  14. At Bletchley Park in 1943/44. It was used by codebreakers in WWII, but was a secret until 1974.
  15. eight
  16. “Macbeth” by Shakespeare. On average, it is performed somewhere in the world every 4 hours.
  17. about 80,000
  18. Rudolf Hess, in May 1941
  19. The Blackjacks, the Quarrymen.
  20. In Arizona, USA
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