After a huge Asthma attack, "Four Weddings & a Funeral" star Charlotte Coleman was found dead in 2001


In 1916, General Douglas Haig finally called off the Somme offensive after five months of highly costly battle (in money AND lives!) had failed to make any headway against the Germans


Photography pioneer Louis Dagueere, born in 1789, developed the daguerreotype, a one-off picture without a negative, when he accidentally spilt iodine on some silvered plates


Roman emperor Vespassian, boorn in 9 A.D., raised the mpney for his campaigns in Wales & north Britain by levying a tax on public urinals!!

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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