Did you know

Did you know...
 * ... that John Carpenter (1999 in the United States), Enrique Chicote (2000 in Spain), and Ralf Schnoor (2010 in Germany) used their 'Phone a Friend' lifelines just to tell they have won the top prize?
 * ... that Mana Ashida from Japan became the youngest top prize winner ever in  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?  franchise in 2013 when she was only 8 years old?
 * ... that the contestant Alan Carver from the United States constantly interrupt the host Meredith Vieira's reading of the answers, so that he could bank up more time for later questions?
 * ... that Friida Kenraali from Finland was so excited when she won Fastest Finger First round that she accidentally broke her chair?
 * ... that Takeshi Kitano from Japan is the only contestant in the history of the format to answer the final question incorrectly and later return to win the top prize?
 * ... that Charles Ingram from the United Kingdom made his way to the £1,000,000 by cheating when Tecwen Whittock and Diana Ingram coughed during the correct answers?
 * ... that the million dollar winner Martin Flood from Australia wrote a JavaScript program to practise Fastest Finger First beforehand?
 * ... that the top prize winner Aroma Ufodike from Nigeria knew the answer to a question about Nigerian football referee Linus Mbah, because Mbah lived in the apartment above him or, as Ufodike put it, "He lives on top of me"?
 * ... that  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Canadian Edition  only lasted for two episodes?
 * ... that Nancy Christy is the only female top prize winner from the United States?
 * ... that the $250,000 winner Brett McDonald from Australia died in a car accident at the wheel of the car he bought with the winning money?
 * ... that two consecutive contestants in the United States in December 2009, Kevin Brown and Chris Mazza, walked away with nothing?
 * ... that Lertlak Panchanawaporn from Thailand won the top prize of 1 million baht in 2002, but had her winnings taken away after it was revealed that a computer error led to the right answers being highlighted on her screen and not the host's?
 * ... that Phil Gibbons from the United States is the only contestant in the history of the show to see the million dollar question without having access to a lifeline after the eight question?
 * ... that the baseball player Tsuyoshi Shinjo, a celebrity contestant in the Japanese version in 2004, had prepared for the show by writing the letters A through D on four sides of a pencil, and on the final question, he rolled the pencil on his palm, and it turned up C that he went for, winning the top prize?
 * ... that Magnus Mali, a contestant from Finland in the beginning of the 2000s, published three quizzing books about ten years after his appearance on the show?
 * ... that Kevin Olmstead from the United States is the biggest winner in  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?  franchise with a $2.18 million jackpot?