Isle Wight facts
While investigating facts about Isle Wight Festival and Isle Wight Ferry, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Robert Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight where his father was a priest in the Church of England.
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The Isle of Wight Act which limited gatherings on the British island to 5,000 people. This was passed after the iconic 1970 Isle of Wight music festival which attracted 600,000 people, despite the island itself having a population of roughly 100,000.
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Once a year cricket is played on a sand bank between the UK mainland and the Isle of Wight
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The is a "National Poo Museum" in the Isle of Wight. Displays include illuminated, clear resin spheres of different types of feces with facts hidden behind toilet lids on the museum walls.
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The Armada of 1779 was a Franco-Spanish naval plan (using 66 ships of the line, plus numerous smaller vessels) to defeat the Royal Navy, seize the Isle of Wight, and then capture Portsmouth using an army of over 40,000 men & 400 transport boats.
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Wheat DNA was found in an 8000-year-old seaport settlement on the Isle of Wight (England). This suggests there may have been Neolithic trade between England and the fertile crescent, hundreds of years before agriculture reached Europe
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A 16-year-old boy vanished on a night out in Cowes on the Isle of Wight 20 years ago, and his disappearance still remains a mystery
