- William Fortnum ('Fortnum & Mason') started business re-selling Queen Anne's discarded candles (she wanted fresh ones every night).
- Isla Guy Fawkes is one the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) named after the Briton who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot.
- The O2 has a hole to let the Blackwall tunnel ventilation towers through.
- Belfast City Airport is named after George Best. As my plane approached the landing strip on Wednesday night, my mind was concentrating more on Best's regular displays of public drunkenness than his extraordinary career as a footballer.
- The X Factor's Andy Williams is a member of my gym (the Newport branch, I suppose).
- Blackout, Britney's new album is dreadful. I forced myself to listen to it all, cannot stand the over-processed vocals and self-referencing on every single bloody song ('It's Britney, bitch' - uhm yes, it's written on the cover too). I wish it to do well though, it sounds like she needs it.
- Florence Nightingale was a keen statistician and made extensive use of charts and diagrams to present reports on medical care.
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