Hatches, Matches and Despatches

Fascinating, bizarre and hilarious facts about the most universal of experiences of life – birth, death and matrimony … All the female eggs needed to produce the next generation of the human race could be contained in the shell of one chicken’s egg … Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ cloakroom … Attila the Hun drank himself to death on his wedding night … in Tanzanian weddings the bride and groom sit on the lap of an old woman … Indian Chief Blackbird was buried sitting on his horse … From