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Chickerell is a towh close to Weymouth in Dorset with a nearby hamlet called Knights in the Bottom. #thingilearnedtoday

When the Wales football team beat England by a record margin of 4-1 in the British Home Championship in May 1977 they were managed by Mike England, in his first match in charge. #engvwal #thingilearnedtoday

Karen Ramirez took Looking for Love, based on an Everything but the Girl song, to number 8 in the UK chart in 1998. #thingilearnedtoday

Patricia Greene is the longest-serving actor in a soap opera worldwide having played Jill Archer in BBC Radio's The Archers since 1957. #thingilearnedtoday

There were Swedish and English-language versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo released in 2009 and 2011 respectively. #thingilearnedtoday

The RSPB chose the avocet as its logo in 1947 as the bird was a symbol of conservation success in the UK having returned after being extinct as a breeding species by the mid-19th century. #thingilearnedtoday

St Clare is the patron saint of television, computer screens, eye diseases and embroidery. #thingilearnedtoday

Taylor Swift has now released as many studio albums (12) as The Beatles. #thingilearnedtoday

Scott Eastwood is the actor son of Clint Eastwood and has appeared in several of his father's films including Flags of our Fathers, Gran Torino and Invictus. #thingilearnedtoday

Former Dutch international footballer Patrick Kluivert is the head coach of the Indonesia national team. (The Guardian) #thingilearnedtoday

Moany, Money, Mone-y.

The European Capitals of Culture in 2025 are Chemnitz in Germany and Nova Gorica in Slovenia. #thingilearnedtoday

The Ritz hotel in London has posted a loss for five consecutive years, albeit the deficit was reduced to £3m in 2024. (City AM) #thingilearnedtoday

Europe's historic Ryder Cup away win closer and more dramatic than it looked like being. At a time of expanding World Cups and Olympics, is there a better example of a format where there's no need for change? #rydercup

Selsey is the southernmost town in Sussex and Selsey Bill is on the town's southern coastline. #thingilearnedtoday

Bosham is a coastal village in West Sussex, England. #thingilearnedtoday

Pretzels were first made by European monks around the 7th century and called pretiola. #thingilearnedtoday

A Ryder Cup in New York is guaranteed to be hyped up, money-spinning and loud. After five successive one-sided contests will be most enjoyable if it's competitive. #RyderCup📷

Arkansas borders six other US states - Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma - and it is possible to travel only south and enter all of them. (Dull Men's Community) #thingilearnedtoday

The British actor Kenneth More (1914-82) was born in Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire and gives his name to the Kenneth More Theatre in Ilford, east London. #thingilearnedtoday

That didn't escalate quickly.

Cricket umpire Dickie Bird, who has died aged 92, officiated in his last test match, England vs India at Lord's, in June 1996 when Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly made their debuts. #thingilearnedtoday

Comedian Michael McIntyre is married to Kitty Ward, the daughter of the late actor Simon Ward. (Mirror) #thingilearnedtoday

The Grand Surrey Canal was a waterway in London that opened on the early 1800s and ran from Rotherhithe to Camberwell with various branches. It was closed and filled in by the 1970s. #thingilearnedtoday

Roger Black's daughter Isabelle is a 400m runner who competes for France. (BBC - World Athletics Championships). #WorldAthleticsChamps #thingilearnedtoday

Trigger Happy TV is returning as a touring stage show in the UK this October. (ITV News London) #thingilearnedtoday

The fast food chain Leon has been owned by Asda since November 2023. #thingilearnedtoday

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's 47.78 in winning the women's 400 metres at the World Athletics Championships in rainy Tokyo the closest anyone has come to a highly questioned 42-year-old world record. #WorldAthleticsChamps

The Royal Burnham Yacht Club's Victory '83 funded by Peter de Savary was Great Britain's challenger for the 1983 America's Cup. #thingilearnedtoday

Robert Redford, who has died aged 89, bought what became his home of Sundance in Utah in 1969, and founded the Sundance Institute in 1981. The institute took over the US Film Festival in 1984 and rebranded it as the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. #thingilearnedtoday