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Did you know ...

• in the Douglas Treaties the Chewhaytsum Indian Tribe of Vancouver Island signed away the land rights for the city of Sooke, British Columbia, for £45.10?
• in the United Kingdom alone, over £60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks?
• in Scotland, anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £2,500?
• in 1853, the Irish clergyman William Reeves bought the 9th-century Book of Armagh (pictured) for three hundred pounds?
• the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
• the Lothair Crystal, an engraved gem now in the British Museum, was once sold for ten pounds?
• when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20, it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
• the residents of England's Butt Hole Road raised £300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
• the expressions "take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves" and "ways and means" are both attributed to William Lowndes?
• by 1901, £4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
• after ten years of service in the Royal Navy, the brig-sloop HMS Curlew became involved in the drug trade, and sold £330,000 worth of opium in China in 1833?
• Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
• Parlophone's "?" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company?
• one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100?
• George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £7,000, but later changed his mind?
• John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?
• Matford Vic, a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased at one time for only £2?
• a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood's contract at the football club, paying £19 per month?
• a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?
• Willie Groves was the first footballer to be transferred for £100 or more?
• Mussolini's Quota 90 fixed the lira exchange rate against the pound sterling at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?