- ... that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate (pictured) as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland"?
- ... that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
- ... that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting?
- ... that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University, during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
- ... that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
- ... that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season, every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?