Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/December 2005

...that Dennis Berry was a musician, composer, arranger and producer who not only produced the music to the first Monty Python film, but has also had his music featured on the BBC's Little Britain, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob Squarepants?
...that the Baldock Beer Disaster occurred on March 14, 1904 when an unstable storage room floor collapsed in a brewery in the North Hertfordshire town of Baldock?
...that A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person?