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(17 September 2019; 1,050 views) Did you know... that the final of the 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was the longest ever recorded best-of-11-frames match, lasting over eight hours of playing time?
(26 February 2020; 2,094 views) Did you know... that in 2016, Alice Dearing became the first British swimmer to win a gold medal at the World Junior Open Water Championships?
(2 March 2020; 2,246 views) Did you know... that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
(8 March 2020; 2,365 views) Did you know... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
(20 March 2020; 1,655 views) Did you know... that the 1985 British Open was the first ranking snooker tournament not to feature a British player in the final?
(14 April 2020; 1,674 views) Did you know... that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle?
(24 May 2020; 785 views) Did you know... that author Clinton Heylin flew from England to California to hear Bob Dylan perform "Idiot Wind" live?
(29 May 2020; 1,929 views) Did you know... that prior to the event, bookmakers' odds against Joe Johnson winning the 1986 World Snooker Championship were 150 to 1? (Nominated by Lee Vilenski)
(10 June 2020; 1,593 views) Did you know... that Cliff Wilson won his first professional snooker title at the age of 57?
(14 June 2020; 1,011 views) Did you know... that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match? (Nominated by Lee Vilenski)
(10 July 2020; 8,524 views) Did you know... that after early professional success as a snooker player, Patsy Fagan developed a psychological block when using the rest and never won another major tournament?
(26 July 2020; 2,842 views) Did you know... that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue?
(3 August 2020; 25,895 views) Did you know... that Konnie Huq(pictured) presented a mockumentary called Konnie's Great British Wee?
(1 November 2020; 2,560 views) Did you know... that The Times said that Sheila Atim "sings Dylan better than Bob"?
(16 November 2020; 16,891 views)Did you know that Sam Quek(pictured) played in all of England's games at the 2014 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy despite breaking two ribs in their opening match? (Nominated by Bait30 )
(9 June 2021; 4,134 views) Did you know... that "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan's first popular songs?
(16 June 2021; 2,995 views) Did you know... that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age?
(2 May 2022; 6,391 views) Did you know... that John Spencer "exploded two myths" by winning the 1977 World Snooker Championship with a two-piece cue that he had only been using for a couple of months?
(18 May 2022; 4,827 views) Did you know... that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
(26 September 2022, 5,467 views) Did you know ... that Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" was misspelled on several international releases of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2?
(2 October 2022, 4,241 views) Did you know... that Bob Dylan recorded "To Ramona" in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
(11 April 2023, 6,502 views) Did you know... that when recording what became "Suze (The Cough Song)", Bob Dylan started coughing, then said that the song ended before his coughing started, and asked the producer to fade it out?
(1 July 2023, 3,326 views) Did you know... that "Obviously 5 Believers" (1966), which featured one of the Hawks, later known as the Band, inspired the name of a band, later known as the Hawks, that was featured on Obviously 5 Believers (2021)?
(4 May 2024, 31,421 views - excludes 2,202 "background views") Did you know... that Susanna Hoffs(pictured) sang on the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked after producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her by saying that Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing?
(4 July 2024, 7,356 views) Did you know... that before reading the script for the play Golden Girls, at least nine of the cast members were under the impression that they would be taking the lead role?
(4 September 2024, 5,885 views) ... that actress Lisa Coleman attended artist Euan Uglow's studio one to three times a week from 1993 to 1996 to model for Articulation?
(15 January 2025, 26,712 views) .. that British weightlifter Zoe Smith (pictured) broke 98 national records in 2008?
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