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From Wikipedia's "

Did You Know

" archives:

... that
Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace (pictured) in Wells
, UK?

... that the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?
... that a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?
... that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain was found at Aveline's Hole, at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills?
... that Culbone Church is the smallest English parish church still holding services?