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20 things you might not know about Belfast...

Updated Friday, 30th August 2019
Belfast is a fascinating place. Here are some facts about the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland...

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1.  RMS Titanic

2.  Belfast City Hall and Wheel

3.  Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo

4.  Tyre

5.  Liam Neeson

6.  Napoleon's Nose Belfast

7.  Queen's University Belfast

8.  Poet Seamus Heaney, David Trimble and Irish President Mary MacAleese are all alumni of Queen’s University

9.  Milk of Magnesia / Magnesium Hydroxide

10.  Samson and Goliath in Belfast

11.  Windsor House, Belfast

12.  Queen's University Belfast frontage

13.  Thompson Graving Dock, Belfast

14.  Donegall Square, Belfast. Marks & Spencer

15.  Ulster Hall, Belfast

16.  Albert Memorial clock

17.  River Lagan, Belfast

18.  Lord Kelvin quote, Belfast (second law of thermodynamics)

19.  Bittles Bar, Belfast

20.  Belfast Botanic Gardens

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