h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You can visit Kipling's house in Rottingdean, near the posh Roedean school for girls in Brighton.

Brighton has two piers (West Pier and Palace Pier). The West Pier was subjected to an arson attack a few years ago. Many believe the owners of the Palace Pier (now recently renamed Brighton Pier) were behind the attack.

Mark Twain was born and died when Halley's Comet was in the sky.

Bill Haley's Rock around the Clock only reached no 17 on its first UK release, in January 1955. It subsequently became the biggest selling single of the decade.

Brighton Rock is both a famous form of candy, a gangster film starring Richard Attenborough and song by Queen.

'Both' sort of implies two things...

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition...

The Spanish inquisition was bad.

1590 will not form a word on a phone or atm keypad

(from Brighton Rock) Maurice LaMarche, who supplies the voice of The Brain in Pinky & The Brain, also supplied the voice of Orson Welles in Ed Wood, and Egon Spengler in the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters.

If you had expected it, I'd have been disappointed. Fact!

Orson Welles was the great-grandson of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew johnson

Abraham lincoln and myself share the same birthday (month and day, not year, obviously! )

you like horses and heavy metal

I do. If you put them together, you have a medival knight, when you think about it... Oooh! Circular factitionness!

Sir Guy of Gisborne was a medeval knight who didn't like Robin Hood.

Robin Hood probably wasnt operating anywhere near nottingham.

The Barron Knights toured with both the Beatles and the Stones.

The Beatles played Bernard Manning's club oop north once.

'Oop north' is a type of slang refering to an area north of, well, here and south of.. scotland, essentially.

"Essence" means petrol in French.