By Gilly Pickup
Spooky, grotesque, bizarre yet actual issues approximately one of many world's maximum towns come alive within the A-Z of Curious London. notice London's tiniest condo, a 4,000-year-old mouse made of Nile clay, and feature a snicker at issues humans depart on London's delivery (including fake the teeth, a human cranium and a park bend - definite, really). Why did a dentist hold his lifeless spouse on view in a store window? the place did a shopkeeper homicide one hundred fifty shoppers? Which Queen confirmed her bosom to an envoy? Why used to be a guy arrested for donning a most sensible hat? within the urban right, why isn't any thoroughfare known as a street? To sum up, eccentrics, legends, folklore, murders, scandals, ghosts, marvelous characters and oodles of wow issue, it's all the following.
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