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The famous red telephone booth has been inspired by the dome of a tomb.
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In France, wearing a mustache is finally not mandatory for gendarmes since 1933.
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The sample “It Began in Afrika” from the title track of the Chemical Brothers released in 2001 has been used by IAM (a french hip hop band) in 1991 for the title “Red, Black and Green”.
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The DeLorean time machine used in the trilogy “Back to the Future” could have been a freezer!
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Every year, the french cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris has as many visitors as Disneyland Paris.
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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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During the American Civil War, the general Lee’s Southern troops called themselves “Lee’s Miserables”, as a tribute to Victor Hugo’s book, Les Misérables.
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The green colour of this flag stands for the Catholics, orange for the Protestants, and white for the harmonious link between both religions.
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