A bloomer is a loaf of bread with oval ends and diagonal stripes cut into the top.- The planet Jupiter has a ‘great red spot’, which is a persistent anticyclonic storm.
- Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature this year.
- The polka originated in 19th century Bohemia.
- A trapezium in geometry is a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides. However, in Canada and the United States, it is a quadrilateral with no parallel sides.
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