Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 59
The Moderator was employed by Josiah W. Dogbolter to find the Fifth Doctor’s TARDIS. He fatally shot Gus Goodman, the Doctor’s companion at the time, leaving the Doctor in tears. (Comic: The Moderator)
According to Charley, the TARDIS gardens are the Eighth Doctor’s pride and joy. It contains all sorts of plants, a stream, and even a swing set. (Audio: Scaredy Cat)
Earth was purportedly invaded once a week while the Third Doctor was in exile. (Novel: Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen)
By one of several accounts, the Sixth Doctor regenerated after he lost almost all his chronon energy (simply put, time energy) in a fight with the Lamprey. (Novel: Spiral Scratch) This suggests that chronon energy is necessary for Time Lord life.
The Eighth Doctor can play a variety of instruments, including the flute, the banjo, the harp, the harpsichord, the theremin, the violin, and the wobbleboard, among others. (Novel: The Year of the Intelligent Tigers)
The Eighth Doctor can also play the piano and has played "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath on it before. (Novel: Eater of the Wasps)
Time travel can cause all sorts of particles, such as bockatrons, harminum, and artron oxidants, to become accumulated in the bodies of the travelers. These particles are addictive, and it is possible to get a contact high when nearby a time traveler. (Novel: The Book of the Still)
River Song and the Thirteenth Doctor have shared a mental link with each other before. It helped River keep her mind focused, and she then used the Eye of Horus to defeat Death. (Novel: The Ruby's Curse)
The Seventh Doctor sometimes erased parts of his memory if he didn't think they would still be useful in order to make room for new memories. (Novel: Timewyrm: Genesys; Audio: The Eye of Horus)
The Amulet of the Wastelands was a Gallifreyan superweapon that got lost on Earth. During his exile, the Third Doctor was sent to retrieve it. This weapon was capable of moving entire planets around as well as controlling the minds of people hypnotically. (Audio: Operation: Hellfire)
Tania Bell received her keys from a version of the curator who resembled an elderly Eleventh Doctor - all bowties and elbows. (Audio: The Keys of Baker Street)
The Eighth Doctor once used a personal chameleon circuit to defeat the Threshold by taking on the appearance of a female Threshold agent, going by the alias Gracie Witherspoon. (Comic: Wormwood)
The Third Doctor once encountered a version of the Master who had been extracted from their time stream. This incarnation was a masked woman who wore a frilly black dress. Her black hair had been streaked with white, and it was combed back from her forehead. Her cheekbones and brow were similar to those of other incarnations of the Master the Third Doctor had encountered. (Novel: Harvest of Time)
While trying to get to a nearby courtyard to save Charley from the guillotine, the Doctor materialized his TARDIS in many incorrect locations and went on all sorts of adventures with his new traveling companion and friend, Guy, who was a gorilla that wore a cravat and a scarlet waistcoat and liked K-pop. (Audio: The Mummy Speaks!)
The Eighth Doctor once admitted that he couldn't tell the difference between old and young humans because they all looked the same to him, just like how fruit flies all looked the same to humans. (Audio: Eclipse)