The author Mary Wesley was 71 when she had her first novel (Jumping the Queue) published. She went on to sell more than three million books, most famously The Camomile Lawn. #thingilearnedtoday
With a total of 499 runs, India's defeat of England was the highest scoring game in T20 World Cup history. #t20worldcup #thingilearnedtoday
Fast Show creators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse met at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. #thingilearnedtoday
Starmer gets a lot of fair criticism but blaming him for scuppering the 'special relationship' by refusing to fall in line behind the erratic and unpopular Trump's highly controversial intervention in Iran is wide of the mark.
Arlington House is a hostel for the homeless in Camden Town, London that opened in 1905. #thingilearnedtoday
Actor Kelsey Grammar who played the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane was born in Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. #thingilearnedtoday
After their win over Chelsea, leaders Arsenal have lost just one of their last 26 Premier League London derbies. (Squawka) #ARSCHE #thingilearnedtoday
Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest while staying in Worthing in 1894. #thingilearnedtoday
The Old Church in Stoke Newington, now a not-for-profit arts space, is the oldest surviving Elizabethan church in London. #thingilearnedtoday
The Gorton and Denton constituency won by the UK's Green Party is a part of Manchester that had been held by Labour since 1931. #thingilearnedtoday
The UK banned the sale of halogen light bulbs from September 2021 to reduce carbon emissions, forcing a shift to more energy-efficient LED alternatives. #thingilearnedtoday
Gordon Brown is the only UK prime minister to have earned a PhD having obtained a doctorate in history from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. #thingilearnedtoday
A high-water mark for sport in Norway with the country topping the Winter Olympics medal table with a record 18 golds, the national football team qualifying for a first World Cup in 28 years, and Bodo/Glimt outclassing Inter to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
After his hundred in today's T20 World Cup win over Pakistan, Harry Brook is the third England men's cricketer with centuries in all three formats after Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan. (BBC Test Match Special) #thingilearnedtoday
Jessie Buckley for Hamnet is the first Irish woman to win best actress at the Bafta awards. #thingilearnedtoday
The name dunnock comes from the English dun meaning brown and the diminutive ock, making it the original little brown bird. #thingilearnedtoday
Truro vs Gateshead in the National League is Great Britain's longest football away day entailing a 920-mile round trip for the travelling fans. (Football Away Days Club) #thingilearnedtoday
The first vacuum cleaner was invented in June 1908 in North Canton, Ohio by James Murray Spengler whose business and patents were subsequently acquired by William Henry Hoover. #thingilearnedtoday
Noble photo of an ignoble ex-prince.
Moose Jaw is the fourth largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and was the venue for the 2025 World Men's Curling Championship won by Scotland. #thingilearnedtoday
The UK's first pedestrian diagonal X-crossing was installed in Balham in south London in 2005. #thingilearnedtoday
Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim was born Quentin Cook and prior to The Housemartins was in a punk band with Paul Heaton called the Stomping Pond Frogs. #thingilearnedtoday
The late Robert Duvall was nominated for seven Oscars and was named best actor for Tender Mercies in 1983. #thingilearnedtoday
The poet T.S. Elliot, born in St Louis, Missouri in USA, was the churchwarden at St Stephen's, Gloucester Road in London for 25 years. #thingilearnedtoday
Before today Great Britain had never won more than one gold medal at a single Winter Olympics. With wins in mixed team snowboard cross and skeleton they landed two in a single day. #MilanoCortina2026
At least England won the cricket Calcutta Cup. #SCOENG
"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses."
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...
Valentines Park is the largest green space in the London borough of Redbridge and stages a weekly parkrun. #thingilearnedtoday
Skeleton athlete Matt Weston lands Great Britain's 13th Winter Olympics gold medal and the first by a man since Christopher Dean in 1984. #MilanoCortina2026
13 February is World Radio Day and commemorates the establishment of United Nations Radio in 1946. #thingilearnedtoday
