To celebrate the launch of It’s A Stampede!, every day for the next year I will be presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’.

Yep, that’s 365 facts!

Here’s today’s slice of geekdom…

July 29th – On this day in 1994, The Mask is released in cinemas. Directed by Charles Russell, The Mask is based on the comic book of the same name and stars Jim Carrey as The Mask/Stanley Ipkiss.

More tomorrow…