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The Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II. 
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| Up to 70 percent of the small intestine can be surgically removed as a treatment for Crohn's disease before short bowel syndrome becomes a factor. |
| The geography of Tasmania results in a climate so similar to that of pre-industrial England that it was once referred to as a Southern England. |
| The rock group Foghat had five gold records in the 1970s and believes that the movie This Is Spinal Tap was based on their career. |
| Wordsworth thought that the purpose of poetic diction is to flatter the reader's self-love. |
| The Christian flag was the idea of a superintendent of a Sunday school who gave a speech asking students what a flag representing Christianity would look like. |
| Teewurst is a German sausage made from two parts of raw pork (and sometimes beef) and one part bacon. |
| Cornwall's South West Coast Path came into being as a working path used by Revenue Officers to patrol the coast near Polperro in search of smugglers. |
| cadigans are a class of placeholder names of unnamed or unknown objects such as gadgets, thingamajigs, or widgets. |
| Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by the Ottoman rulers. |
| Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You out of My Head" is credited as achieving the highest combined sales, airplay and downloads in the world since Cher's 1998 single "Believe". |
| The documentary film Aliens of the Deep by Academy Award winner James Cameron and Steven Quale was made using footage of at least 40 deep sea dives in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. |
| The fairy in nVidia's Dawn technology demo was designed by Steven Giesler, who also created many characters for the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Final Flight of the Osiris films by Square. |
| Thomas Usk's The Testament of Love (1387), once attributed to Chaucer, was written while in prison to drum up sympathy. |
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