Trivia of the Day August 14

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from the Sidney Sussex College library in Cambridge, Massachusetts and returned 288 years later.

Cologne Cathedral is the largest cathedral in northern Europe. Built in the Gothic style, construction was began in 1248 on the site of an older church and completed, 632 years later on August 14, 1880. It was the tallest structure in the world until 1884, after which it was overtaken by the Washington Monument.

The cathedral from the south by Velvet. Wikipedia

The wives of two Beatles attended the same college. Paul McCartney's first wife, Linda, and John Lennon's second, Yoko, both went to Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.

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