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Films
Did you know...
 * ...that a publicity campaign for The Boogie Man Will Get You had to be abandoned because film critics preferred the antagonists in Disney films?
 * ...that during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats, the film's director and lead actress married each other?
 * ...that They Met in Argentina was described in one review as "an American musical at its worst"?''
 * ...that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
 * ...that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?''
 * ...that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground?''
 * ...that Westward Ho! premiered in cinemas just two weeks after the start of filming?''
 * ...that Alberto Cavalcanti asked David MacDonald to re-shoot scenes from the 1940 British propaganda film Men of the Lightship because the performance of the actors was "totally unconvincing"?''

Historic buildings
Did you know...
 * ...that several historical items have been found in the basement of Gotham House in Tiverton, Devon, including documents signed by Oliver Cromwell?
 * ...that the inventory of Emery Walker's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris's hair and Dante Rossetti's teapot?
 * ... that Room 12 at The Crown in Amersham, England, has a mural dating back to the 16th century?

Museums
Did you know...
 * ...that the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, one of the largest museums in the West Country, originally occupied two rooms in a former pub?
 * ... that Yelverton Paperweight Centre, which has over 1000 paperweights, has its origins in the private collection of a Cornish postmaster?
 * ...that the Jewish Military Museum was founded partly to counter the idea that British Jews have avoided serving in the armed forces?
 * ...that a Bruges building dating to 1399 now houses a museum dedicated to fries?

Novels
Did you know...
 * ...that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
 * ...that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?
 * ...that the original publication of Eve's Ransom by George Gissing was delayed by Fred Barnard's drunkenness?''

Politicians
Did you know...
 * ...that all of Edward William Price ' s immediate family died in a shipwreck the year before he became Government Resident of the Northern Territory?''
 * ...that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory?''
 * ...that in 1896, one newspaper described Charles Dashwood as 'the personification of kindness in his dealing with aborigines'?''

Woodlands
Did you know...
 * ...that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
 * ...that more than 8000 trees were planted in Backmuir Wood to celebrate the 2000 millennium?''
 * ...that the eastern edge of Philipshill Wood is believed to mark the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia?''
 * ...that there used to be a metal fish tree in Cowleaze Wood?''

Inevitable miscellany
Did you know...
 * ... that Noureddine Aba wrote a series of love poems inspired by a young couple dying at the time of Algeria becoming independent from France?
 * ... that Gabriel Ruhumbika wrote his first novel in English, but all of his subsequent novels in Swahili?
 * ... that despite covering the works of a Christian theologian, the Thomas Aquinas Dictionary does not contain entries for "Redemption", "Incarnation" or "Trinity"?
 * ... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
 * ...that The Sesame Street Dictionary contains around 1,300 illustrations of Muppets?
 * ...that when he was 42, Fred Ridgeway gave up his career in finance to become a professional actor?
 * ...that in 1962, television director John Hefin graffitied a rock in support of a local politician?
 * ...that the Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of smallpox?
 * ... that the death of four students from Southway Comprehensive School during a school trip in 1993 led to the establishment of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority?
 * ...that when he was 18, pianist Percival Mackey toured with a band consisting of a 72-year-old trumpeter and a fiddler who was often drunk?''

Most and least popular

 * Top 10
 * 1) The Boogie Man Will Get You (6270 views)
 * 2) Jewish Military Museum (5001 views)
 * 3) Bottom Wood (4165 views)
 * 4) Gotham House (3076 views)
 * 5) Cowleaze Wood (2926 views)
 * 6) Women Are Better Diplomats (2891 views)
 * 7) Frietmuseum (2887 views)
 * 8) Tiverton fire of 1731 (2765 views)
 * 9) Westward Ho! (1940 film) (2611 views)
 * 10) They Met in Argentina (2344 views)


 * Bottom 10
 * 1) The Paying Guest (505 views)
 * 2) William Bloomfield Douglas (514 views)
 * 3) Gabriel Ruhumbika (680 views)
 * 4) Thomas Aquinas Dictionary (680 views)
 * 5) Barrie Edgar (775 views)
 * 6) 7 Hammersmith Terrace (1125 views)
 * 7) Workers in the Dawn (1127 views)
 * 8) Eve's Ransom (1143 views)
 * 9) Noureddine Aba (1174 views)
 * 10) John Hefin (1212 views)