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If you drive from Melbourne to Sydney, you will travel through 10 different First Nations language groups. And there’s the same number between Melbourne and Adelaide.

“There is no happiness on earth equal to that of liberty regained” – more wisdom from Don Quixote

Astrology and the interpretation of the stars and planets have been around for millennia. First originating in ancient Mesopotamia, astrology began by using the stars to decipher messages from the gods.

Including pieces of knowledge about lungs, the three-time Melbourne cup winning mare Makybe Diva, spiral staircases and more.

If I could interview someone dead or alive, I would like to interview Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime (WWII) leader.

Jeff shares facts and odd bits he learnt in the past month.

Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.

Humans have five traditional senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. We go about the world using these senses to guide us, and we are heavily reliant on vision as our primary and dominant sense.

Have you ever heard of a national dish? No doubt you’re aware of a national anthem or a national flag, but what is a national dish?

While you may have heard of Christmas and Hanukkah, did you know that there’s also an important Buddhist celebration and a Wiccan festival in the same month?