Portal:Somerset/Did you know/2

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that the Sun (pictured) and Pluto are only 11 km apart on the Somerset Space Walk?
 * ... that Chard Museum in Somerset, England, includes a collection of early articulated artificial limbs?
 * ... that The George Inn in Norton St Philip, Somerset, was used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes?
 * ... that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
 * ...that the small Land Yeo river in Somerset, England, has powered at least ten watermills in the last 1,000 years?