At the time of writing (18:07, 27 June 2007 (UTC)), I have been a signed-up Wikipedian for exactly one year, and have made 763 edits in the article namespace (although I have only just realised that is its official title), uploaded 421 images and recorded 17 spoken articles. My first edit was to Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, an old but excellent computer game which I still play today - not bad for an 18-year-old game!
Mostly a bit obscure, in fairness...
If anybody who is interested in transport tickets of any type should come across this userpage, I highly recommend this society, of which I have been a member for 12 years and Journal monthly columnist for 5 years.
I intend to contribute to this project (spoken versions of Wikipedia articles) whenever I get the chance to make recordings. I will try to "do" as many 
Featured Articles as possible. My contributions so far:
| Source article |
Fact |
| 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? |
| Church of St. Bartholomew, 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? |
| Church of St. Paul, 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? |
| Church of St. Nicholas, 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? |
| Church of St. Martin, 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"? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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.) |
| 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? |
| Roman glass |
Did you know that systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry? |
| Tsering Chungtak |
Did you know that in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant? |
| 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.) |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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"? |
| 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? |
| St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton |
Did you know that 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
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