• Höhlgangsanlage 8, built in Jersey during World War II under the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces, was a partially completed underground hospital complex with over 1 km of tunnels?
• George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?

Facts on topics related to Jersey

Isle of Man

• YouTube artist Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Man has become popular in Japan?
• Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
• Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
• due to his home country's proximity to Ireland, the music of Davy Knowles – a Manx blues guitarist – is influenced by the Celtic genre?
• the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?
• the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man (pictured) worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?

Guernsey

• the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy?

England

• 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
• 19th-century smugglers in Worthing, West Sussex, England, were known to store their contraband in table-tombs at West Tarring's St Andrew's Church (pictured)?
• 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
• Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
• Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• 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?
• Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
• Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C., who also played in those colours?

Republic of Ireland

• Aer Arann is the only scheduled airline that uses Waterford Airport, which lies close to Tramore Bay in the Republic of Ireland?
• Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event?
• Ireland's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern presented an episode of GAA television programme The Road to Croker when the usual host was at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?
• Irish ballerina Monica Loughman, aged 14, was the first Westerner to dance for the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Perm, Russia?
• Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons?
• Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"?
• Irish journalist Richard Downes secretly entered Zimbabwe disguised as a tourist to film an undercover report for the BBC's Newsnight during the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election?
• Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz?
• Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on "Unplayed Piano", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?
• Irish politician John O'Donoghue resigned as Ceann Comhairle over various expense claims, including a £1 charity donation to UNICEF?

Malta

• Australian Second World War flying ace Adrian Goldsmith was credited with shooting down 12¼ Axis aircraft over Malta between the months of February and July 1942?
• Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down 10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942?
• Ira Losco, who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe?
• Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
• British Major-General Eric Cole, who helped plan the invasion of Normandy, was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team?
• Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree?
• Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
• Popeye Village, where the 1980 film Popeye was filmed, is now one of Malta's most popular tourist attractions?
• although Ernest Wild developed scurvy during the Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite, he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta?
• eight Kaba class destroyers (destroyer pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy were based in Malta in World War I?

Canada

• "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
• 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?
• Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans?
• Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
• Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803?
• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?

Australia

• "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia?
• "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
• 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008?
• football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
• Australia has a National Public Toilet Map, allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude?
• Australia's first uranium mine (pictured) opened in 1906 and initially produced radium for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford?

Bermuda

• Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport manager James G. Howes (pictured) was lampooned using signal flags to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a Boy Scout uniform?
• Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
• the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda, Finland, and Scotland?
• the Rum Swizzle is often called "Bermuda's national drink"?
• the pink buses of Bermuda are specially designed for the island's roads?

Falkland Islands

• Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?