Impressive Queen Facts


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1. Queen Victoria had a novelty bustle with a music box that played ‘God Save the Queen’ when she sat down.
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2. Since taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 corgis.
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3. 1 honey bee queen rules over 20,000–40,000 individuals & mates w/ about 12 different males. She controls them by releasing pheromones
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4. Queen Elizabeth I owned two ‘unicorn horns’ that were supposed to purify water and cure sickness.
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5. Spider-Man grew up at 20 Ingram Street in Queens. The address exists in real life, and the family that lives there is the Parkers.
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6. Queen Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landings than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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7. Queen Victoria would use marijuana to relieve menstrual cramps.
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8. The Queen Mother once turned up unannounced to watch a top-secret rehearsal of her own funeral.
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9. A real man gives his lady the attention she deserves, gives her all of his love, calls her beautiful and treats her like a queen.
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10. Queen Victoria had jewellery made out of her children’s milk teeth.
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11. Queen Elizabeth II had a special shelf installed in her car so there was somewhere to put her handbag.
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12. The words ‘ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king’ contain 52 letters.
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13. The Queen took her corgi, Susan, on her honeymoon.
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14. If a queen honey bee is removed from her hive, all the bees in the hive know she's missing within 15 minutes.
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15. Queen is the only band in which every member has individually written more than one #1 hit.
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16. Johnny Depp and Queen Elizabeth are 20th cousins.
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17. Queen is the only group in which every member has composed more than one number 1 single.
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18. Brian May, the lead guitarist in Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics.
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19. Queen bee stingers are not barbed - they can sting repeatedly without dying. *bzzz*
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20. Queen Elizabeth II keeps a crown-adorned rubber ducky in the royal bathtub.
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21. Queen Elizabeth II has been the head of state of a total of 32 independent countries at various times during her reign.
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22. Queen Elizabeth I often drank two pints of strong beer for breakfast.
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23. In 2011, 27 baby girls were named Khaleesi. It means Queen in a fictional language from Game of Thrones
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24. If Zac Efron could swap lives with anyone, he says he would like to be the Queen of England.

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