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| New England Quarter | Did you know that a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton, England, was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate? | |
| St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton | Did you know that the Grade I-listed Church of St. Bartholomew, Brighton, England, was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893? | |
| History of rail transport in China | Did you know that the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty? | |
| St Paul's Church, Brighton | Did you know that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church? | |
| St Nicholas' Church, Brighton | Did you know that Phoebe Hessel, who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, England? | |
| St Martin's Church, Brighton | Did you know that the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany? | |
| Lloyd Groff Copeman | Did you know that Lloyd Groff Copeman, the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray, the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather? | |
| Pat Partridge | Did you know that at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee? | |
| Harold Austin | Did you know that West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin, who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly? | |
| External relations of the Isle of Man | Did you know that although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens, they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union? | |
| Aid Convoy | Did you know that when British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo? | |
| Young Persons Railcard | Did you know that one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100? | |
| Wentworth Estate | Did you know that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England? | |
| Family Railcard | Did you know that children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires? | |
| St Barnabas Church, Hove | Did you know that St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"? | 62 |
| St George's Church, Brighton | Did you know that St George's Church, Brighton became so popular after Queen Adelaide started attending that in order to increase its seating capacity, master builder Thomas Cubitt built an extra gallery in one week? | 991 |
| St Andrew's Church, Hove | Did you know that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town? | 912 |
| Iraqi diaspora in Europe | Did you know that a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 1100 |
| St Leonard's Church, Aldrington | Did you know that listed building St Leonard's Church in Brighton and Hove was on Church Road, but is now on New Church Road after another church was built? | 975 |
| Roman glass | Did you know that systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry? | 6199 |
| Tsering Chungtak | Did you know that in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant? | 7225 |
| Enea Bossi, Sr. | Did you know that Italian-American aerospace engineer Enea Bossi, Sr. designed a pioneering human-powered aircraft and the first aircraft used by the NYPD? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 1480 |
| James H. Douglas, Jr. | Did you know that after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt, James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies? | 489 |
| Rosemary Kuhlmann | Did you know that opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months? | 1644 |
| List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford | Did you know that a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle? | 2812 |
| I'm Backing Britain | Did you know that the briefly popular I'm Backing Britain campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal? | 4112 |
| Doncaster railway line, Melbourne | Did you know that the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided? | 2112 |
| Doping in association football | Did you know that soccer became the last Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when FIFA ratified it in 2006? | 742 |
| Flyer (steamboat 1891) | Did you know that the steamboat Flyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull, causing it to list to port throughout its working life? | 3190 |
| Graham Lewis (footballer) | Did you know that footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet? | 676 |
| Henry Martin (footballer) | Did you know that footballer Henry Martin scored on his début against Liverpool and again the next day against their neighbours Everton? | 1233 |
| Crown Hotel, Nantwich | Did you know that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison? | 1109 |
| Wrawby Junction rail crash | Did you know that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash? | 2170 |
| Electricity sector in Brazil | Did you know that over 25% of Brazil's electricity is generated by a hydroelectric plant at Itaipu on the Paraná River? | 1395 |
| History of Cardiff | Did you know that the National Library of Wales was established in Aberystwyth instead of the capital, Cardiff, partly because its founder regarded Cardiff as having "a non-Welsh population"? | 629 |
| Flora of Scotland | Did you know that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge, a yew which may be Europe's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain's tallest tree? | 1817 |
| St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton | Did you know that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation? | 693 |
| Schweizer SGP 1-1 | Did you know that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car? | 6475 |
| Libyan Italians | Did you know that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it? | 2816 |
| Jacqueline Voltaire | Did you know that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos? | 16885 |
| Premiership of Benjamin Disraeli | Did you know that by 1901, £4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000? | 366 |
| William Edge (politician) | Did you know that Sir William Edge, a Liberal MP, once raced against a flock of homing pigeons from London to Leicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed? | 1799 |
| St Patrick's Church, Hove | Did you know that much of the interior of the 19th-century St Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as a night shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s "sleep capsule" concept? | 2032 |
| All Saints Church, Patcham | Did you know that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824? | 675 |
| Bishop Hannington Memorial Church | Did you know that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove, England, is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II's orders? | 846 |
| Isfield railway station | Did you know that Isfield railway station, now the terminus of a preserved railway line, was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland? | 1421 |
| Poole Stadium | Did you know that Poole Stadium, a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway, was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final? | 860 |
| Sexual dimorphism in non-human primates | Did you know that the canine teeth of male baboons—which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism? | 141 |
| One-armed bandit murder | Did you know that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based? | 3693 |
| Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca | Did you know that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years? | 2551 |
| Gerechtigkeitsgasse | Did you know that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005? | 1630 |
| Soringa whiting | Did you know that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean? | 2312 |
| England and Scotland football rivalry | Did you know that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind? | 1193 |
| Future enlargement of the European Union | Did you know that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel? | 3546 |
| St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove | Did you know that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world? | 1613 |
| Indonesian killings of 1965–66 | Did you know that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965-66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history? | 2989B |
| Genevieve R. Cline | Did you know that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate? | 1960 |
| Suitport | Did you know that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use of suitports, patented in 1996? | 7596 |
| WAPET | Did you know that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964? | 369 |
| Allegations of corruption in the construction of Chinese schools | Did you know that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials? | 1366 |
| Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church | Did you know that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles? | 2367 |
| Fred Forman | Did you know that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history? | 879 |
| Cushion plant | Did you know that cushion plants, which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years? | 14045 |
| St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean | Did you know that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused? | 2401 |
| William Lane Booker | Did you know that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states? | 956 |
| Percival Goodman | Did you know that Percival Goodman, described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward, was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City? | 1905 |
| First-generation Ford Taurus | Did you know that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 10045 |
| French Protestant Church, Brighton | Did you know that the French Protestant Church in Brighton, one of only two in England, is expected to close this year? | |
| Joan Fontcuberta | Did you know that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes, photographs and X-rays? | |
| Young Romance | Did you know that the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic? | |
| Bird vision | Did you know that birds' eyes have three lids, including the nictitating membrane which moves across the eyeball horizontally? | |
| Joel Daly | Did you know that former WLS-TV news anchor Joel Daly and his co-presenter Fahey Flynn popularized "Happy Talk"? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | |
| Adrenergic storm | Did you know that an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants, or a subarachnoid haemorrhage? | |
| Josiah Forster and William Forster (philanthropist) (Double nom) | Did you know that Josiah and William Forster, early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause? | |
| Srizbi botnet | Did you know that the Srizbi botnet of 300,000 infected computers is responsible for sending 60 billion spam e-mails per day? | |
| Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident | Did you know that the Condon Committee report into the Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident in 1956 concluded it was likely that at least one genuine UFO was involved? | |
| Square Pie | Did you know that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup, British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat? | |
| Battle of Lipantitlán | Did you know that in the Texas Revolution battle of Lipantitlán, Texian insurgents captured in 30 minutes a Mexican fort they described as a "second-rate hog pen"? | |
| Gokoku-ji (Okinawa) | Did you know that a 15th-century bell from the Gokoku-ji Buddhist temple in Japan was sent to the U.S. in 1854 and rung when the Naval Academy at Annapolis won the annual Army-Navy football game? | |
| Amateur chemistry | Did you know that Charles Martin Hall, working as an amateur chemist in a shed, developed what became the Hall-Héroult process for extracting aluminium? | |
| St Helen's Church, Hangleton | Did you know that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton, may have been used as a hagioscope by lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building? | |
| Exhaled nitric oxide | Did you know that exhaled nitric oxide can be measured in a breath test for asthma and airway inflammation? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | |
| List of parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Did you know that in 2003, North Korea became the first state to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since it came into force in 1970? | |
| Biofortification | Did you know that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours? | 2116 |
| Chapel Royal, Brighton | Did you know that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon? | 1956 |
| St Lythans | Did you know that according to local tradition, on Midsummer's Eve the capstone of the Neolithic St Lythans burial chamber in Wales spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river? | 2393 |
| Quintus Valerius Soranus | Did you know that according to Pliny the Elder, Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works? | 883 |
| 2008 Australian Federal budget | Did you know that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops? | 518 |
| Jolimont Yard | Did you know that the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917? (Co-nomination with Bedford) | 378 |
| Roger Kimpton | Did you know that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot? | 1032 |
| Seymour Reit | Did you know that Seymour Reit, co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost, claimed that Da Vinci had painted two Mona Lisas, one of which was in a bank vault in New Jersey? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 963 |
| Convoy ON-67 | Did you know that the U.S. and Canadian ships escorting the British merchant ships of Convoy ON-67 in 1942 had one working radar between them, lacked sufficient binoculars and had never operated together before? | 2285 |
| Illegal entry | Did you know that to combat illegal entry by foreign nationals, India and China are currently building security barriers at their borders with Bangladesh and North Korea respectively? | 1656 |
| Annual medical examination | Did you know that although routine annual medical examinations are popular with the public, there is limited evidence of their effectiveness and they are considered inadvisable by some health organisations? | 1926 |
| Petrevene | Did you know that the Bulgarian village of Petrevene celebrates "Watermelon Day" every August? | 1303 |
| Kamfers Dam | Did you know that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa? | 1495 |
| Storming of Bristol | Did you know that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"—rudimentary flamethrowers—against the defending Parliamentarians? | 1597 |
| Stanmer Church | Did you know that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground? | 2093 |
| North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company | Did you know that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history? | 1023 |
| St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean | Did you know that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication? | 1415 |
| Afro-Brazilian Culture | Did you know that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil, where over 80 percent of people are of African descent? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 813 |
| Leo Bennett | Did you know that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake? | 825 |
| Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney | Did you know that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women? | 908 |
| FA Cup 1962-63 | Did you know that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963? | 349 |
| Mathematical diagram | Did you know that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams, going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun? | 7461 |
| Fault-tolerant computer systems | Did you know that the earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951? | 2524 |
| St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street, Hove | Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England? | 1141 |
| Auditory agnosia | Did you know that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)? | 2199 |
| Hazel Crane | Did you know that socialite Hazel Crane's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy? | 2581 |
| Amada and Temple of Derr (Nominated these two as part of a quintuple hook) | Did you know that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam? | 390 and 362 |
| Morris Sullivan | Did you know that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry? | 349 |
| St Peter's Church, West Blatchington | Did you know that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century? | 1146 |
| William Hacket Pain | Did you know that army officer and M.P. William Hacket Pain was involved in planning and organising the Larne Gun Running operation, which helped to arm the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule crisis of 1912? | 415 |
| River Clun, South Wales | Did you know that in 2000, an ammonia discharge into a tributary of the River Clun in Wales killed its entire population of European bullheads? | 3168 |
| Churches and places of worship in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that former places of worship in Brighton and Hove, England, have been converted into a pub, a screen-printing factory, an art gallery and a sheltered housing complex, among other things? | 916 |
| Overman Committee | Did you know that the Overman Committee, led by Senator Lee Slater Overman, investigated allegations that groups such as the United States Brewers Association were promoting "un-American activities"? | 455 |
| Hu Sihui | Did you know that Yuan Dynasty dietician Hu Sihui's culinary encyclopaedia was the first book to contain a recipe for Peking Duck? | 47 |
| Richard Levett | Did you know that former Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett's country house, Kew Palace, was subsequently sold to the Royal Family? | 375 |
| American Student Assistance | Did you know that American Student Assistance is the oldest guarantor of student loans in the United States? | 404 |
| Henrietta Ward | Did you know that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White? | 342 |
| Henrietta Rae | Did you know that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint? | 3473 |
| Macau security law | Did you know that the proposed Macau security law would make treason punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison? | 3501 |
| St Nicolas Church, Portslade | Did you know that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries? | 828 |
| Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s | Did you know that Actionable Offenses is a CD compilation of profane and sexually explicit phonograph recordings from the 1890s, which Anthony Comstock’s Society for the Suppression of Vice managed to get banned? | 3364 |
| Our Lady of Victory Basilica (Lackawanna, New York) | Did you know that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava? | 709 |
| Matilda (chicken) | Did you know that the hen Matilda lived to age 16 and became the world's oldest chicken in 2004, never laying any eggs? | 2884 |
| Rotation in living systems | Did you know that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods, although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults? | 1981 |
| Paleoparasitology | Did you know that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology? | 1711 |
| Koreans in Spain | Did you know that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria? | 1177 |
| List of listed buildings and structures in Crawley and Beehive (Gatwick Airport) (Double nom) | Did you know that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal? | 553 and 2828 |
| Jerry Ziesmer | Did you know that Jerry Ziesmer, who delivered the line "Terminate with extreme prejudice" in Apocalypse Now, was also the film's assistant director? | 1404 |
| Jardwadjali | Did you know that many of the members of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team which toured England in 1868 were Jardwadjali men? | 2210 |
| Shugborough inscription | Did you know that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail? | 4194 |
| St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley | Did you know that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him? | 872 |
| Shagreen ray | Did you know that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fullers ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth? | 1620 |
| Ideational apraxia | Did you know that ideational apraxia causes people to lose the ability to use everyday objects correctly, as they can no longer relate the object's purpose to the actions required to perform a task? | 2246 |
| Train melody | Did you know that the ideal length of a train melody is seven seconds? (Co-nomination with Suntag, Politizer and Backslash Forwardslash) | 2464 |
| Magosternarchus | Did you know that the Magosternarchus genus of knifefish eats the tails of other knifefish, and many specimens have been found with regenerated tails? | 1176 |
| St Margaret's Church, Ifield | Did you know that the 14th-century life-size stone effigies of a knight and his wife in St Margaret's Church, Ifield, England, have been said to have an "inimitable sideways sway"? | 12346 |
| Abyssobrotula galatheae | Did you know that Abyssobrotula galatheae lives deeper in the ocean than any other known fish? | 6924 |
| History of Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom | Did you know that a council ward in the East End of London was renamed "Spitalfields and Banglatown" in 2001 to reflect the history of Bangladeshi immigration to that area? | 440 |
| Balance (Lexus) | Did you know that the Balance and Ball Bearing television advertisements for the Lexus LS 400 and ES 300, were highly honored and subsequently referenced by its competitors in their own advertising campaigns? | 1219 |
| Lasiognathus | Did you know that the name of the Lasiognathus genus of anglerfish, distinctive for its huge upper jaw, derives from the Greek for "hairy jaw"? | 7086 |
| Sternarchogiton nattereri | Did you know that male and female Sternarchogiton nattereri knifefish are so different that males were thought to be members of a different genus for 40 years? | 4610 |
| William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir | Did you know that William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa, Canada, because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father? | 1188 |
| Tree House, Crawley | Did you know that the 14th-century Tree House, the former manor house of Crawley, England, was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight? | 5848 |
| Ifield Friends Meeting House | Did you know that the Friends Meeting House at Ifield, England, built in 1676, is one of the oldest purpose-built Friends meeting houses in the world? | 791 |
| Red Ensign of Singapore | Did you know that masters of Singapore-registered ships are subject to a fine of S$1,000 if they do not hoist the Red Ensign before entering or leaving port? | 4450 |
| Swaledale (cheese) | Did you know that the production of Swaledale cheese includes soaking the cheese wheel in 85 percent brine for 24 hours? | 6260 |
| Lola T93/30 | Did you know that the Lola T93/30 Formula 1 car was described as "virtually undriveable" by the team's drivers after its first race, the 1993 South African Grand Prix, because of its aerodynamic deficiencies? | 3602 |
| Redeye gaper | Did you know that when threatened, the redeye gaper rapidly takes in water to swell its body? | 6046 |
| Brackley railway station | Did you know that when Brackley railway station was visited by the Royal Train in 1950, the King and Queen had to step on a box when leaving the train because its door was far above the platform? | 1029 |
| Equivalents | Did you know that Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents series of cloud photographs are regarded as the earliest examples of abstract photographic art? | 722 |
| Breastfeeding in public | Did you know that in Scotland, anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £2,500? | 2239 |
| Rufus T. Bush | Did you know that news of Rufus T. Bush's victory in a transatlantic yacht race took up the whole front page of the New York Times on March 28, 1887? | 1617 |
| Lowfield Heath and St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath (Double nom) | Did you know that only one original building, St Michael and All Angels Church, survives in the former village of Lowfield Heath—destroyed by the expansion of London Gatwick Airport? | 3367 and 2831 |
| Patrie (airship) | Did you know that the airship Patrie broke free from its moorings at Souhesmes, France, blew across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and was eventually lost in the Atlantic Ocean? | 9708 |
| Ranby (HM Prison) | Did you know that in 2006, a prisoner escaped from HM Prison Ranby, England, by hiding in a rubbish lorry? | 915 |
| Anangula Island | Did you know that rabbits that were introduced as food for arctic foxes still populate Anangula Island in the Aleutian Islands, although the foxes were removed in the 1940s? | 1547 |
| Dennis Coslett | Did you know that in a 1967 television interview, David Frost compared Welsh nationalist activist Dennis Coslett to Israeli general Moshe Dayan, because both wore eyepatches? | 827 |
| St Luke's Church, Queen's Park, Brighton | Did you know that the unusual layout of bays in the aisles of St Luke's Church, Brighton, was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "curious" and "disturbing"? | 4762 |
| Tab show | Did you know that tab shows—cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals, with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA? | 648 |
| Old Punch Bowl | Did you know that the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom, an officers' mess, a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub? | 2452 |
| Ifield Water Mill | Did you know that the restoration of Ifield Water Mill in West Sussex, England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers? | 898 |
| Offshore oil and gas in the United States | Did you know that the first discovery of oil off the Texas coast came in 1941? | 2867 |
| St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer | Did you know that the dedication of St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer, England—commemorating twin Christian martyrs from Syria—occurs on only two other extant churches in England? | 1460 |
| Churches and places of worship in Crawley | Did you know that the largest Hindu temple in South East England is being built in Crawley, where 3.4% of residents are Hindu compared to 1.1% in England as a whole? | 714 |
| Folkestone White Horse | Did you know that the European Commission declared the creation of the Folkestone White Horse unlawful? | 17656 |
| Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe and Tapsel gate (Double nom) | Did you know that the Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe, England, has a rare Tapsel gate, which has a central pivot and was designed to keep cattle out and allow coffins through easily? | 3808 and 14068 |
| Strines Reservoir | Did you know that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir, South Yorkshire, England, after climbing its staircase? | 2070 |
| Crawley Hospital and West Green, West Sussex (Double nom) | Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in 1965, described the recently built Crawley Hospital in the town's West Green neighbourhood as "easily the best building in Crawley up to date"? | 664 and 159 |
| Southgate, West Sussex | Did you know that in 1969, building work in the Southgate area of Crawley, England, uncovered evidence that northern Sussex was a pre-Roman industrial area? | 678 |
| Common stingray | Did you know that Pliny the Elder claimed that the toxic spine of the Common stingray could kill trees and corrode iron? | 3298 |
| London Road viaduct | Did you know that after London Road viaduct in Brighton, England, was bombed in 1943, trains were using it again within 24 hours even though the road below was visible through gaps in the damaged brickwork? | 10372 |
| Pepper Pot, Brighton | Did you know that the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton, England, has been used as a public toilet, printworks, Scout headquarters, wartime observation tower and artist's studio, but its original function is unknown? | 2717 |
| Extinct comet | Did you know that over time, comets expel most of the volatile material from their nuclei and become extinct comets, small asteroid-like lumps of rubble? | 203 |
| St Philip's Church, Hove | Did you know that an edition of BBC radio programme Any Questions?, featuring former Prime Minister Edward Heath, was broadcast live from St Philip's Church, Hove in 1995? | 239 |
| Chattri (Brighton) | Did you know that the Chattri in Brighton, England, stands on the site of the ghat where Hindu and Sikh soldiers of the First World War were cremated after dying while being treated at the Royal Pavilion? | 2956 |
| St Mary the Virgin, Brighton | Did you know that St Mary the Virgin Church in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876? | 1009C |
| Milan–Venice railway line | Did you know that the Milan–Venice railway line crosses the Venetian Lagoon on a 222-arch bridge built on 80,000 piles of larch wood? | 949 |
| ASF/SF2 | Did you know that the protein ASF/SF2 is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1? | 1724 |
| Cuban medical internationalism | Did you know that the policy of Cuban medical internationalism has provided, among other things, ongoing medical care to 18,000 victims of the Chernobyl disaster? | 1199 |
| St John the Evangelist's Church, Preston Village, Brighton and St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton (Double nom) | Did you know that in 1908, the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church became the parish church of Preston Village in Brighton, England, after the 13th-century St Peter's Church was seriously damaged by fire? | 1095 and 914 |
| List of Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the ruined West Pier—damaged by a succession of fires and storms? | 806 |
| St Joseph's Church, Brighton | Did you know that St Joseph's Church, a Roman Catholic church in Brighton, England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled? | 890 |
| Hove Methodist Church | Did you know that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church, England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor? | 509 |
| Holland Road Baptist Church | Did you know that Holland Road Baptist Church in Hove, England, was paid for by George Congreve, who made his fortune selling tuberculosis elixir? | 1324 |
| Fizz keeper | Did you know that fizz keepers, which are claimed to pump air into bottles of fizzy drink and thereby stop them going flat, do not actually work in this way according to Henry's Law and Dalton's Law? | 3477 |
| St Stephen's Church, Brighton | Did you know that the former St Stephen's Church in Brighton, England, was built as a tavern ballroom a mile away from its present site? | 1970 |
| Amon Wilds and Amon Henry Wilds (Double nom) | Did you know that the father-and-son architects Amon and Amon Henry Wilds—leading figures in Brighton's development—used the ammonite capital as their signature device as a pun on their first names? | 328 and 389 |
| Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue) | Did you know that contrary to popular myth, Robert E. Lee's face is not carved on the back of the 1920 statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.? | 8857 |
| Shakespeare Cliff Halt railway station | Did you know that Shakespeare Cliff Halt, a private railway station on a cliff ledge near Dover, England, has been used by miners, the British Army and railway employees, but never by the public? | 4341 |
| St Mark's Church, Brighton | Did you know that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over? | 700 |
| Union Chapel, Brighton | Did you know that the former Union Chapel, Brighton's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use? | 2008 |
| St Wilfrid's Church, Haywards Heath | Did you know that before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop? | 829 |
| St Peter's Church, Ardingly | Did you know that in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Ardingly, West Sussex, one gravestone depicts angels watching a skeleton stabbing a woman with a lance? | 3103 |
| Dominant white | Did you know that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats? | 6002 |
| Craigie Castle, Ayrshire | Did you know that the ruined Craigie Castle contained one of Scotland's best vaulted halls? | 7693 |
| St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath | Did you know that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site? | 463 |
| St John the Evangelist's Church, Burgess Hill | Did you know that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections? | 468 |
| Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting and List of places of worship in Adur (Double nom) | Did you know that St Mary's Church in Sompting—one of 26 extant places of worship in the Adur district of West Sussex—has an 11th-century tower with the only Rhenish helm in England? | 2250 and 1395 |
| Roof-top synagogue | Did you know that the octagonal Roof-top synagogue in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock? (Expansion of Historicist's already-qualifying article) | 4086 |
| Shark Conservation Act | Did you know that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate? | 3011 |
| St Julian's Church, Kingston Buci and Kingston by Sea (Double nom) | Did you know that St Julian's Church in Kingston Buci, West Sussex, has the well-preserved remains of an anchorite's cell, in which a hermit would have been walled up for life? | 2927 and 555 |
| St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick | Did you know that in 1941, the tower at St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex was wrecked by an unexploded bomb which was found embedded in the churchyard two years later? | 2463 |
| Lujan-Fryns syndrome | Did you know that Lujan-Fryns syndrome is often associated with failure of a major brain structure to develop? | 1335 |
| St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, Erringham chapel and St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea (Triple nom) | Did you know that of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn, and the other has carvings of King Stephen, his wife, and a cat? | 381, 608 and 898 |
| List of places of worship in Lewes (district) | Did you know that the variety of places of worship in the district of Lewes, England, reflect its long tradition of Protestant Nonconformism? | 479 |
| Lewes Free Presbyterian Church | Did you know that the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church, affiliated with Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel? | 410 |
| St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea | Did you know that the "severe" and "assertive" former St Peter's Church in Shoreham-by-Sea was converted into a nursing home, retaining many original features? | 3556 |
| Sir James Sanderson, 1st Baronet and William Huntington (preacher) (Joint double nom with Victuallers) | Did you know that when M.P. and Lord Mayor, Sir James Sanderson, bart. died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of William Huntington S.S.? | 739 and 1739 |
| Coombes Church | Did you know that the ancient wall paintings in Coombes Church in West Sussex include a man grimacing as he holds up the 30-inch (76 cm)-thick chancel arch? | 1987 |
| Frank Vigar | Did you know that Essex cricketers Frank Vigar and Peter Smith shared a club record 218-run last-wicket stand in 1947? | 347 |
| London Transport (brand) | Did you know that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs? (A modified version of my original nomination.) | 1527 |
| St James the Less Church, Lancing | Did you know that by the 17th century, the Norman church of St James the Less in Lancing, West Sussex was so dilapidated that birds were nesting and pigeons were breeding inside? | 4101 |
| List of places of worship in Worthing | Did you know that a church in Worthing, England, has the world's only known replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, hand-painted at two-thirds scale by an untrained artist? | 8030 |
| St Andrew's Church, West Tarring | Did you know that 19th-century smugglers in Worthing, West Sussex, England, were known to store their contraband in table-tombs at West Tarring's St Andrew's Church? | 1196 |
| Ancient Priors | Did you know that the 15th-century Ancient Priors in Crawley had hidden rooms reached by pulling meat-hooks to open a trapdoor and twisting a wall-carving to move a fireplace? | 5025 |
| Devil's door | Did you know that Devil's doors allowed the Devil to escape from churches after leaving the souls of newly baptised babies? | 4574 
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| St Mary's Church, Walberton | Did you know that a 1767 gravestone at St Mary's Church, Walberton shows the victim crushed under a tree, as a laughing skeleton and scythe-wielding Father Time look on? | 3139
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| White Hart Inn, Crawley | Did you know that the White Hart, a coaching inn on Crawley High Street, England, had stabling accommodation for 180 horses? | 1346 |
| Listed buildings in Worthing | Did you know that the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing, West Sussex, includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads? | 919 |
| List of royal visits to Worthing | Did you know that royal visitors to Worthing, West Sussex, have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee? | 1120 |
| St George's Church, Worthing | Did you know that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"? | 732 |
| Worthing Tabernacle | Did you know that Worthing Tabernacle, in West Sussex, reputedly obtained its first organ from Tudor fortress Walmer Castle? | 686 |
| St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea | Did you know that opponents of Hans Feibusch's "violently masculine and brutal" Christ in Majesty mural at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea took their case to a consistory court? | 5278 |
| Connaught Theatre (Expansion of Peetred's already-qualifying article) | Did you know that the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, UK, is a rare example of a cinema being converted into a theatre in the 1930s, when the reverse was common? | 762 |
| Beach House Park, Worthing | Did you know that Beach House Park in Worthing, West Sussex, has a memorial to war pigeons? | 2554 |
| Fountain Inn, Ashurst | Did you know that the video for Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex? | 514 
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| Maritime history of Worthing | Did you know that in 1989, a block of flats in Worthing, England, was named in commemoration of the Capella, wrecked off the coast in 1891, but the name was accidentally misspelt? | 1311 |
| Haldanes (Expansion of Bungle's already-nominated but not-yet-qualifying article) | Did you know that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years? | 1217 |
| St Botolph's Church, Heene | Did you know that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in Heene, West Sussex, stand the "somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor? | 1412 |
| St Andrew's Church, Worthing | Did you know that St Andrew's Church in Worthing, West Sussex, stood unused for two years after its completion as controversy raged over the "Worthing Madonna"? | 3724 |
| Vintners Parrot | Did you know that the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing, West Sussex, occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel? | 1398 |
| Rochdale Town Hall (Expansion together with other members of WP:GM) | Did you know that it is thought that Rochdale Town Hall was so admired by Adolf Hitler that he wanted to ship it, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the UK been defeated in World War II? | |
| St Symphorian's Church, Durrington | Did you know that St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching? | |
| Tinsley Green, West Sussex | Did you know that Tinsley Green in West Sussex has hosted the World Marble Championships every year since 1932? | 2236 |
| Brewery Shades | Did you know that a male ghost reputedly haunts the ladies' toilet at the Brewery Shades in Crawley, West Sussex? | 3215 |
| Broadfield House, Crawley | Did you know that Broadfield House in Crawley, West Sussex, has at various times housed a country club, a radio station and Crawley's New Town Development Corporation? | |
| Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove and Royal Albion Hotel (Double nom) | Did you know that buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the Royal Albion Hotel, wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages? | 523 and 605 |
| Mathematical tile, Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, Brighton (Triple nom) | Did you know that glazed black mathematical tiles, as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England? | 3828, 681 and 672 |
| Royal Crescent, Brighton | Did you know that a Coade stone statue built at Brighton's Royal Crescent in 1802 to impress the Prince of Wales had to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off? | 1104 |
| Nicholas Barbon | Did you know that Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon is considered a pioneer of fire insurance in England? (Expansion of existing article) | 10906 |
| West Street Baptist Church, East Grinstead | Did you know that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead—a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion? | 1385 |
| Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley | Did you know that Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony in Crawley, West Sussex? | 1552 |
| Red Lion Inn, Shoreham-by-Sea | Did you know that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham, West Sussex in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog? | 2080 |
| Titnore Wood (Expansion of Peetred's already-qualifying article) | Did you know that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006? | 1374 |
| Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield | Did you know that the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it? | 3294 |
| St Mary's Church, Slaugham | Did you know that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church in Slaugham, West Sussex, resolved a dispute about pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them? | 2710 |
| Hangleton Manor Inn | Did you know that Hangleton Manor, the oldest secular building in Hove, England, has a cursed dovecote reputedly haunted by ghost pigeons? | 6126 |
| Providence Strict Baptist Chapel, Burgess Hill; Providence Chapel, Hadlow Down; Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel, Hastings; Rehoboth Chapel, Pell Green; Rye Particular Baptist Chapel; Shover's Green Baptist Chapel; Southover General Baptist Chapel; and Zion Chapel, Newick (Eight-part nom) |
Did you know that Burgess Hill, Hadlow Down, Hastings, Newick, Pell Green, Rye, Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use? | 1314, 1218, 1232, 1205, 1138, 1144, 1156 and 1095 |
| List of Category A listed buildings in Clackmannanshire and Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works (List created by Jonathan Oldenbuck and nominated by me; article created by me) | Did you know that the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, include a glass cone? | 1227 and 3043 |
| List of places of worship in Hastings; Church in the Wood, Hollington; Hastings Fishermen's Museum; Holy Trinity Church, Hastings; and Christ Church, Ore (Five-part nom) | Did you know that past and present churches in Hastings, East Sussex, include one in the middle of a wood, one on the beach for the fishermen, one on a "crazy site" and one with "a very naughty turret"? | 3303, 2380, 1973, 3020 and 6779 |
| St Leonards-on-Sea United Reformed Church and St Luke's Church, Silverhill (Double nom) | Did you know that the spires of both St Luke's and St Leonards-on-Sea United Reformed churches in Hastings, East Sussex, were destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987? | 1341 and 1073 |
| Clock Tower, Brighton | Did you know that the Clock Tower in Brighton city centre has been variously described as "delightful", "worthless", "a giant salt-cellar", "charmingly ugly" and "supremely confident"? | 5409 |
| St Matthew's Church, Silverhill | Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Silverhill, East Sussex, was meant to have a large tower with a tall spire, but when money ran out only a small flèche was built? | 1192 |
| Wykeham Terrace, Brighton | Did you know that in the 19th century, part of Wykeham Terrace—a "charming Gothic confection" in Brighton—was used as an institution for reformed prostitutes? | 2278 |
| French Convalescent Home, Brighton | Did you know that the former French Convalescent Home on Brighton seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known double glazing? | 1383 |
| Western Pavilion | Did you know that architect Amon Henry Wilds built the Hindoo-style Western Pavilion as his own home in Brighton, and installed an igloo-shaped bathroom in its dome? | 2090 |
| 11 Dyke Road, Brighton | Did you know that 11 Dyke Road, Brighton—latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" Gothic style as a school for poor girls? | 1769 |
| Park Crescent, Brighton | Did you know that Amon Henry Wilds's Italianate Park Crescent development in Brighton was the scene of the infamous "trunk murder" of July 1934? | |
| Steine House | Did you know that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House, Brighton, to win a bet? | 831 |
| Sussex Heights | Did you know that Sussex Heights, Brighton's tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam? (Expansion of existing article) | |
| List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement? | 1577 |
| Regency Square, Brighton | Did you know that Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton? | 1323 |
| Bungaroosh | Did you know that the fragile building material bungaroosh is so prevalent in Brighton that much of the town "could be demolished with a well-aimed hose"? | 5044 |
| Brighton Forum | Did you know that the Brighton Forum, a serviced office complex in Brighton, England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers' wartime use? | 858 |
| Van Alen Building | Did you know that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building? | |
| Freemasons Tavern, Hove | Did you know that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove, with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession"? | |
| The George Hotel, Crawley | Did you know that the George Hotel in Crawley, Sussex, has hosted Lord Nelson, a stranded Queen Victoria, illegal bare-knuckle prizefighters, horse auctions, the Acid Bath Murderer and public executions?(Co-nomination with Dr. Blofeld) | |
| Thomas Lainson; Royal Alexandra Hospital, Brighton; 75 Holland Road, Hove; and Pelham Institute (Four-part nom) | Did you know that architect Thomas Lainson's works include a Queen Anne-style hospital, a Second Empire-style furniture repository and a High Gothic working men's club? | 931, 1358, 836 and 605 |
| Barford Court, Hove | Did you know that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove, England, was built of specially-commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove? | 6828 |
| Carlton Hill, Brighton and List of conservation areas in Brighton and Hove (Double nom) | Did you know that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill—originally one of Brighton's poorest slums—became one of 34 conservation areas in the city? | 1216 and 782 |
| Preston Manor, Brighton | Did you know that ghosts at Preston Manor, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor? | 3828
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| All Saints Church, Highbrook and West Hoathly (Double nom) | Did you know that that the isolated All Saints Church at Highbrook, West Sussex, was paid for by two sisters who thought the parish church at West Hoathly was too far to travel? | 1707 and 681 
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| Amex House | Did you know that Amex House, European headquarters of Brighton's largest employer, American Express, is nicknamed "The Wedding Cake"? | 4172 |
| All Saints Church, Buncton | Did you know that an ancient carving of a person exposing their genitals, at All Saints Church in Buncton, West Sussex, was destroyed by a chisel-wielding vandal in 2004? | 8263
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| British Engineerium | Did you know that the British Engineerium, created by a steam enthusiast who started with £300, was later bought for £3 million by another enthusiast? | 5570 |
| St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down | Did you know that a builder of St Mark's Church in Hadlow Down, East Sussex, was sacked for deliberately placing its weather vane upside down? | 1709 |
| Central Methodist Church, Eastbourne | Did you know that when Central Methodist Church in Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast? | 1975 |
| Brighton Hippodrome | Did you know that The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Brighton-born conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton have all topped the bill at the Brighton Hippodrome? | 3916 |
| All Saints Church, Roffey | Did you know that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium? | 2520 |
| St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton | Did you know that in the 12th-century frescoes of St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton, West Sussex, "a spike-heeled devil riding a large beast separates the doomed from the blessed"? | 1475 |
| Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst | Did you know that the 13th-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Warminghurst, West Sussex, was restored for the first time in 1959, only to be made redundant in 1979? | 3591 |
| St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke | Did you know that the dedication of North Stoke Church—forgotten for centuries—was accidentally rediscovered in 2007 when a researcher examined a piece of vellum in The National Archives? | 4839 |
| Roundhill Crescent and Round Hill, Brighton (Double nom) | Did you know that 101 Roundhill Crescent, in Brighton's Round Hill suburb, housed England's first hospital for the treatment of mental illness? | 1555 and 660 |
| Jarvis Hall, Steyning and Steyning Methodist Church (Double nom) | Did you know that Jarvis Hall, a former chapel in Steyning, West Sussex, has housed a bottling plant, a gym, a dance school, and four Nonconformist congregations—including Methodists who moved out and built a larger church nearby? | 659 and 405 |
| List of places of worship in Horsham (district) and Madina Mosque, Horsham (Double nom) | Did you know that places of worship in the English district of Horsham include a mosque in a former Baptist chapel? | 393 and 1818 |
| Cemeteries and crematoria in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that at Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in East Sussex, England, Mr. Bacon is buried next to Mrs. Egg? | 2638 |
| St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tortington | Did you know that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington has "an amazing congregation of grotesque monsters"? | 1781 |
| St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester | Did you know that the former St John the Evangelist's Church in Chichester was designed according to such extreme Low Church principles that the altar resembles "a kind of kitchen table"? | 2253 |
| Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel | Did you know that more than 120 family members of a founder of Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel are buried in its graveyard? | 1388 |
| St Leonard's Baptist Church, St Leonards-on-Sea; St Mary Magdalene's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea; Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea; St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea; Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea; St Peter's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea (Six-part nom) |
Did you know that in St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, Christ Church, St John's and St Peter's Anglican churches are Grade II* listed buildings, and there are Grade II listed Baptist, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches? | 133, 283, 187, 180, 261 and 187 |
| St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton | Did you know that St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton inspired a Kipling poem in which the priest preached Midnight Mass to a donkey and a bullock when nobody else turned up? | 3604 |
| List of places of worship in Arun; Bailiffscourt Chapel; Littlehampton Friends Meeting House; Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel; Angmering Baptist Church (Five-part nom) |
Did you know that past and present churches in Arun, West Sussex, include one in the grounds of a luxury hotel, one in a former Penny School, one that became a market, and a "strangely towered" one? | 1606, 572, 480, 533 and 6305 |
| Greatham Church | Did you know that writer Arthur Mee was once advised not to mistake Greatham Church for a haystack? | 2906 |
| Horsham Unitarian Church | Did you know that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel, was buried in four coffins? | 1409 |
| Robertsbridge United Reformed Church | Did you know that the design of Robertsbridge United Reformed Church in England has been described as "truly horrible" and "most dissolute"? | 8676 |
| The Mermaid Inn | Did you know that The Mermaid Inn in England has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s? (Co-nomination with Dr. Blofeld, Nvvchar and Rosiestep) | 8566 |
| Stag Inn, Hastings | Did you know that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings, England? | 3459 |
| St Botolph's Church, Botolphs | Did you know that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs, a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle? | 3722 |
| List of places of worship in Rother | Did you know that one of the churches in the English district of Rother is a former Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station? | 1968 |
| St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth | Did you know that Charles Davis Lucas, the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross, is buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church in Mereworth, Kent? (Co-nomination with Mjroots) | 435 |
| Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel, Robertsbridge | Did you know that Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel in Robertsbridge was founded by a "mystical Micawber"? | 877 |
| Cox & Barnard | Did you know that Cox & Barnard of Hove, England, made stained glass windows for a Canadian church from shards of glass collected by an army chaplain from war-damaged churches across Europe? | 1644 |
| St Mary's Church, Hampden Park, Eastbourne | Did you know that the bombed-out St Mary's Church in Hampden Park, East Sussex, was replaced by "one of Edward Maufe's most charming designs"? | 2974 |
| Ditchling Unitarian Chapel and Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel, Wivelsfield (Double nom) | Did you know that after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield, a member of Ditchling Chapel said he would "tear the church to pieces" and founded his own church, the Bethel Chapel? | 1443 and 1830 |
| Jubilee Library, Brighton | Did you know that so many people used Brighton's Jubilee Library on its opening day that the toilets stopped flushing? | 6120 |
| St Mary's Church, West Chiltington | Did you know that the ancient murals at St Mary's Church in West Chiltington include a wounded Christ standing on a wheel—a warning against breaking the Sabbath? | 2186 |
| Brighton Wheel | Did you know that the Brighton Wheel in Brighton, England, stood in South Africa last year? | 11432 |
| John Leopold Denman and 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton (Double nom) | Did you know that the building at 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton, designed by John Leopold Denman, contains a relief showing Denman holding an architectural plan? | 1177 and 5026 |
| Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel | Did you know that Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel in East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back? | 3389 |
| Bilsham Chapel | Did you know that since its 16th-century closure, Bilsham Chapel in West Sussex has been two cottages, a shed and now a house? | 2596 |
| Montpelier, Brighton | Did you know that before Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries? | 2310 |
| St Leonard's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea | Did you know that St Leonard's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea was partly crushed by a collapsing cliff, and later destroyed when a damaged doodlebug crashed outside its doors? | 2907 |
| Hounsom Memorial Church | Did you know that when Tony Bennett broke a grand piano before a concert at the Brighton Dome, staff went to the Hounsom Memorial Church in Hangleton and borrowed theirs? | 883 |
| Montpelier Crescent and Vernon Terrace, Brighton (Double nom) | Did you know that Montpelier Crescent in Brighton was unusually built facing the South Downs instead of the sea—but this view was blocked within ten years by Vernon Terrace? | 3028 and 1185 |
| Clayton & Black, First Church of Christ, Scientist (Brighton), Gwydyr Mansions, 155–158 North Street, Brighton and 163 North Street, Brighton (5-part nom) | Did you know that prolific Brighton architects Clayton & Black's works include churches, mansion flats, banks, cinemas and their "chef d'œuvre"—a pink granite insurance office? | 876, 227, 634, 185 and 981 |
| King and Queen, Brighton | Did you know that the King and Queen pub in Brighton, the Clayton & Black firm's Mock Tudor "pantomime", has hosted Miss Miniskirt competitions and Margaret Thatcher? | 1977 |
| St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney | Did you know that 16th-century parishioners of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney built the church's 66-foot (20 m) tower in "an inspired community effort involving the whole village"? | 3010 |
| St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly | Did you know that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in West Hoathly, West Sussex, was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall? | 1425 |
| List of current places of worship in Chichester (district) | Did you know that places of worship in the district of Chichester, West Sussex, include a Buddhist monastery and a tin tabernacle? | 749 |
| All Souls Church, Hastings and St Leodegar's Church, Hunston (Double nom) | Did you know that Pevsner called Arthur Blomfield's All Souls Church, Hastings a "serious town church", but claimed "absolutely nothing can be said" about the architect's St Leodegar's Church, Hunston? | 1531 and 1553 |
| List of former places of worship in Chichester (district) | Did you know that former churches in Chichester, West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things? | 1821 |
| St George's Church, Eastergate | Did you know that St George's Church in Eastergate, West Sussex, is reached by walking through a farm whose "magnificent" Elizabethan granary is also used by the church? | 1510 
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| Crawley Development Corporation | Did you know that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation? | 646 |
| St Mary and St Peter's Church, Wilmington (Co-nomination with Peter I. Vardy) | Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary and St Peter's Church in Wilmington, East Sussex, there is a 1,600-year-old, 23-foot (7 m) wide yew tree? | 2666 |
| St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes | Did you know that Henry Piggott's gravestone at St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, states that he was born on 30 December 1715 and died on 7 March 1715? | 2098 |
| List of places of worship in Tonbridge and Malling | Did you know that places of worship in the Kent borough of Tonbridge and Malling include converted barns and badminton halls, tin tabernacles and a former Swedenborgian church? | 448 |
| Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 | Did you know that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered, but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax? | 420 |
| Henry Phillips (horticulturist), Anthaeum, Hove and Palmeira Square (Triple nom) | Did you know that Palmeira Square in Hove, England, occupies the site of the Anthaeum—whose spectacular collapse the day before it opened made its promoter Henry Phillips go blind from shock? | 2431, 6977 and 2671 |
| Listed buildings in Eastbourne | Did you know that Eastbourne's listed buildings include a bus shelter, several gazebos, three Martello towers and a fort which is "rather a curiosity"? | 3920 |
| Moulsecoomb Place | Did you know that the Prince Regent sometimes stayed at Moulsecoomb Place, where he would sit in a dovecote and practise the flute? | 3574 |
| Montefiore Hospital, Hove | Did you know that a "magnificent" furniture depository in Hove, England, designed by local architects Clayton & Black, later became an insurance office and—in November 2012—the Montefiore Hospital? | 1423 |
| The Keep, Brighton | Did you know that had The Keep not been built, 900 years worth of East Sussex's historical records could have been moved from the existing unsuitable building to another part of England? | 9998 |
| Airlink (helicopter shuttle service) | Did you know that Prince Charles was one of the first passengers on the Airlink helicopter? | 3313 |
| Locally listed buildings in Crawley | Did you know that dignitaries travelled from as far afield as Yugoslavia to look at Tilgate's "impressive" shopping parade, one of Crawley's 58 locally listed buildings? | 1053 |
| Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 and Fernhill, West Sussex (Double nom) | Did you know that 50 people died when a Boeing 727 crashed into a house at Fernhill on its approach to Gatwick Airport in 1969, but a baby in the house survived? | 4362 and 558 |
| List of conservation areas in Crawley and Dyers Almshouses (Double nom) | Did you know that conservation areas in Crawley, West Sussex, include some 1930s almshouses, 1950s flats and two 1970s housing estates? | 549 and 1269 |
| Ralli Hall | Did you know that Ralli Hall in Hove—founded 100 years ago today—has been an Anglican church hall, a Jewish place of worship, a wartime drill hall, a cinema, and a zumba venue, among other things? | 2134 |
| List of places of worship in Tandridge (district) | Did you know that places of worship in the Surrey district of Tandridge include a Latter-day Saints' Temple, a Neo-Byzantine United Reformed church and a converted school building? | 1618 |
| List of places of worship in Mole Valley and Providence Chapel, Charlwood (Double nom) | Did you know that Providence Chapel—a former church in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England—was once a Napoleonic-era officers' mess and "would not be out of place in the remotest part of East Kentucky"? | 556 and 1850 |
| Astoria Theatre, Brighton | Did you know that the Astoria Theatre in Brighton – one of the south coast's largest "super-cinemas" – showed its last film in 1977, and permission to demolish it has been granted? | 2069 |
| Goodwyns | Did you know that architectural historians have described Goodwyns as "unusually good" for a council estate, with "more elegant than average" tower blocks? | 3838 |
| Royal Pavilion Tavern | Did you know that Brighton's Royal Pavilion Tavern was home to the town's Hundred Court in the early 19th century? | 1169 |
| List of places of worship in Reigate and Banstead | Did you know that places of worship in the Surrey district of Reigate and Banstead include a mosque in an old Methodist chapel, a church decorated with ancient artefacts from Constantinople, and a windmill? | 3183 |
| List of places of worship in Epsom and Ewell and Bugby Chapel (Double nom) | Did you know that Bugby Chapel—a former place of worship in Epsom—has been used by Calvinists, Unitarians, Strict Baptists and Jews since it opened in 1779? | 451 and 1653 |
| Adelaide Crescent | Did you know that on census day in 1861, the 29 occupied houses in Adelaide Crescent, Hove, had 182 servants between them? | 6037 |
| Gothic House | Did you know that Gothic House, a "fanciful and irresponsibly Gothick" 1820s building in Brighton, has most recently housed a video rental shop and the Rock 'N' Roller American Pool bar? | 4539 |
| Public services in Crawley | Did you know that public services in Crawley New Town could have included heating for the whole town, but the Development Corporation decided against it? | 1314 |
| Marine Gate | Did you know that Marine Gate (pictured) was the most bombed building in Brighton during World War II, but only one resident—a Hollywood child star—died? | 9622 |
| Norfolk Hotel, Brighton and Horatio Nelson Goulty (Double nom; Goulty co-written with Zigzig20s) | Did you know that an 1866 guidebook called Horatio Nelson Goulty's Norfolk Hotel "more beautiful than any other building in Brighton"? | 1902 and 901 |
| Bear Road, Brighton | Did you know that a dead elephant is buried under a road junction in Brighton's Bear Road area? | 3003 |
| Buildings and architecture of Brighton and Hove | Did you know that Brighton and Hove's Regency-era seafront, "overflowing [with] architectural inventiveness", was nearly demolished in its entirety in the 1930s in favour of Modernist buildings? | 7629 |
| Anthony Minoprio | Did you know that Anthony Minoprio provided a new master plan for Crawley New Town after the previous planner suddenly resigned in "an extraordinary decision [... which was] never completely explained"? (Co-nomination with Edwardx) | 776 |
| Thomas Simpson (architect), Gilbert Murray Simpson, List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove, Elm Grove, Brighton and Prestonville, Brighton (5-part nom) | Did you know that Thomas and Gilbert Murray Simpson designed "a distinguished group of board schools" in the Victorian era for suburban areas of Brighton such as Elm Grove and Prestonville? | 246, 408, 1203, 394 and 357 |
| Henry Michell Wagner | Did you know that the Vicar of Brighton got shot in the twitten? (Co-nomination with Zigzig20s) | 4637 |
| List of places of worship in Guildford (borough) | Did you know that places of worship in the borough of Guildford include a former telephone exchange, two 19th-century barns and the "Bingo Chapel"? | 1277 |
| Libraries in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that libraries in Brighton and Hove include a former pub, a former vicarage, and part of a lido? | 1020 |
| Percy and Wagner Almshouses and Hanningtons (Double nom; Hanningtons co-written with Davidstewartharvey) | Did you know that residents of the Percy and Wagner Almshouses in Brighton were given two gowns, a black bonnet, and a duffel cloak "not to exceed 21 shillings" from Hanningtons department store? | 1946 and 836 |
| Tower House, Brighton | Did you know that when it was built as a private house in 1902, Tower House in Brighton had such unusually modern features as underfloor heating and a combined shower and bath? | 4063 |
| Forge Wood | Did you know that the planning process for the new Forge Wood neighbourhood of Crawley took 13 years? | 1180 |
| Two Together Railcard | Did you know that over 215,000 Two Together Railcards were sold within a year of the card being launched? (Co-nomination with SheffGruff) | 4304 |
| Arthur Wagner | Did you know that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death? (Co-nomination with Zigzig20s) | 1335 |
| Wings Place (a.k.a. Anne of Cleves House) | Did you know that Anne of Cleves House in Ditchling has been occupied by Henry Poole MP, the Duke of Wellington and Jamie Theakston, but never by Anne of Cleves? (Co-nomination with Dr. Blofeld, Nvvchar and Rosiestep) | 3996 |
| Waste House | Did you know that materials for the Waste House included floppy disks, VHS cassettes, bicycle inner tubes, old jeans and 20,000 toothbrushes? | 8740 |
| St Edmund Church, Godalming, Meadrow Unitarian Chapel, Godalming Friends Meeting House, Salvation Army Hall, Godalming and Godalming Congregational Church (5-part nom) | Did you know that Godalming's Roman Catholic, Quaker, and Unitarian places of worship, former Congregational chapel, and former Salvation Army hall are all Grade II listed buildings? | 668, 540, 685, 518 and 426 |
| List of places of worship in Waverley (borough) and Park Lane Chapel, Farnham (Double nom) | Did you know that places of worship in Waverley, Surrey include a former Strict Baptist chapel founded in a loft by a Jewish convert? | 1012 and 878 |
| List of places of worship in Woking (borough) | Did you know that places of worship in Woking borough include Britain's first mosque, a Buddhist temple in a former asylum and an Eastern Orthodox church in a cemetery? | 1917 |
| St. Paul's Church, Rusthall | Did you know that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall, has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"? (Co-nomination with The C of E) | 1551 |
| Cornelia James (glovemaker) | Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II's glovemaker, Cornelia James, was accepted by the art college that rejected Adolf Hitler? (Co-nomination with Edwardx, Zigzig20s and Philafrenzy) | 2637 |
| Rolling stock of Network SouthEast | Did you know that Network SouthEast's rolling stock included Bubble Cars, Dusty Bins, Thumpers, and Tadpoles, all with a toothpaste colour scheme? | 4901 |
| Courtenay Gate | Did you know that celebrity vet Buster Lloyd-Jones compared living in the penthouse flat of Courtenay Gate in Hove to "living in a lighthouse"? | 5577 |
| Brighton Herald and 2–3 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton (Double nom) | Did you know that the Brighton Herald, latterly based at 2–3 Pavilion Buildings in Brighton, was the first newspaper in England to report Napoleon's escape from Elba? | 621 and 591 |
| Princes House, Brighton | Did you know that the Alliance Building Society's sports club was established in 1935 with "a second-hand table tennis table and dartboard" in the basement of Princes House in Brighton? | 502 |
| List of current places of worship on the Isle of Wight and Thomas Hellyer (architect) (Double nom) | Did you know that current places of worship on the Isle of Wight include two of England's oldest Catholic churches and several Anglican churches by Thomas Hellyer, an architect described by Pevsner as "very individualistic"? | 2812 and 1231 |
| Ticketer (Created by My name is not Dave; expanded and nominated by me) | Did you know that the introduction of Ticketer ticket machines on Reading Transport buses meant that 11,000 pre-paid cards had to be reissued? | 2474 |
| St Peter's Church, Henfield (Created by Antiquary; I expanded with the hook fact and nominated) | Did you know that when St Peter's Church in Henfield needed a bell in the 17th century, the churchwarden stole one from St Leonard's Church in Aldrington? | 3249 |
| Worthing Tramocars | Did you know that Bill Gates' converted dustbin lorry helped old people get around Worthing? | 5959 |
| Five Ash Down Independent Chapel and Uckfield Baptist Church (Double nom) | Did you know that a year after Five Ash Down Independent Chapel opened, doctrinal differences caused some members to leave and form Uckfield Baptist Church? | 609 and 456 |
| St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington and List of places of worship in the Borough of Havant (Double nom) | Did you know that the churchyard of St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington – a place of worship in the Borough of Havant – has two huts in which grave-watchers kept a lookout for body snatchers? | 1902 and 540 |
| List of places of worship in Portsmouth | Did you know that two cinemas, a bank, and a pub are now used as places of worship in Portsmouth, England? | 1104 |
| List of places of worship in the Borough of Fareham and Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel (Double nom) | Did you know that Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel, a place of worship in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England, was built to replace a converted wooden boatshed that flooded during high tides? | 3327 and 904 |
| Holy Trinity Church, Ryde | Did you know that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it? | 3435 |
| Northgate, West Sussex | Did you know that when the shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex, were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key? | 1798 |
| List of places of worship in Elmbridge and Weybridge United Reformed Church (Double nom) | Did you know that places of worship in Elmbridge, Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church? | 2724 and 753 |
| Galeed Strict Baptist Chapel, Brighton | Did you know that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church? | 1069 |
| List of places of worship in East Hampshire | Did you know that places of worship in the English district of East Hampshire include the Temple of the White Eagle Lodge—likened to "an Art Deco version of the Pantheon"? | 6619 |
| Wellington Square Baptist Church, Hastings | Did you know that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town? | 2569 |
| Hastings Unitarian Church | Did you know that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches? | 2596 |
| Public services in Brighton and Hove | Did you know that local regulation and law enforcement in Brighton's early history was carried out by the Society of Twelve, a Beadle "in cocked hat and full regalia", and two "Old Charlies"? | 2623 |
| Hartington Road Halt railway station | Did you know that Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, which closed after five years, was accidentally opened illegally? | 4391 |
| Clarence House, Brighton | Did you know that when the former Clarence Hotel in Brighton began to collapse in 1990, the resulting closure of North Street diverted 120 buses per hour in each direction for a week? | 5123 |
| SailRail (Created and nominated by Ritchie333; I was credited for expansion and extra sources) | Did you know that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland? | 3693 |
| Lewes Road, Brighton | Did you know that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema? | 7374 |
| Pubs in Brighton | Did you know that 100 beerhouses were licensed in Brighton (population 40,000) in the first week after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was enacted? | 5435 |
| Winchester United Church and List of places of worship in the City of Winchester District (Double nom) | Did you know that Winchester United Church, a place of worship in the City of Winchester District, Hampshire, was built into the walls of the former county jail? | 2911 and 1436 |
| Hove Library | Did you know that as well as books, Hove's first public library featured a disembowelling knife and a Japanese executioner's sword? | 10454 |
| Horsham Friends Meeting House | Did you know that the headstone of George Bax Holmes, who is buried at Horsham Friends Meeting House, is now a paving slab? | 5856 |
| Charles Knight (artist) (Co-nomination with Matthewfoliverathotmaildotcom, who submitted this at AfC, and AfC patroller Spinster300 who submitted and cleaned up the draft) | Did you know that Charles Knight's wartime painting activities led to him being mistaken for a German spy? | 9699 |
| Lewes Friends Meeting House | Did you know that Lewes Friends Meeting House, built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"? | 3825 |
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