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Did you know that you are not allowed to play tennis on the streets of Cambridge?

Did you know Did you know that Oliver Cromwell is buried in an unmarked grave close to the doors of the Sidney Sussex College Chapel? He was originally buried in Westminster Abbey , but in 1661 Charles II had his body removed to be hanged, drawn and quartered and finally beheaded at Tyburn , his skull displayed on a spike at the Abbey for nearly a quarter of a century. What is thought to be his skull was eventually buried at his old college Sidney Sussex in March 1960.

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