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Around the beginning of the 20th century, he was headhunted by the [[Great Higher-Up]]s, but declined to join their numbers, not wanting it to interfere with his other responsibilities. He would nevertheless later apply to join the [[Guardians of Time (925th Universe)|Guardians of Time]], though his email went without reply. By this time, he was already teaching at the [[Royal College of Oz]] as “[[Professor Nowitall]]”, living under Monarch [[Pastoria]], in what was then known as [[the Central City]]. He grew bored, however, of this fairly stagnant era of Oz's history, and began looking for replacements. [[Nothern Cardinal]] [[Gayelette]] eventually helped him to realise that no living Ozian who would be up to his standards would be likely to ''want'' the position, prompting him to create a successor out of whole cloth — or, as the case may be, having dismissed the option of a living scarecrow or a [[Frankenstein]]-style construct, out of a clutch of [[wogglebug]] eggs that happened to catch his line of sight in a corner of his rather derelict laboratory. Experimenting ruthlessly upon them for decades, he eventually managed to create “[[Professor Wogglebug (925th Universe)|Professor Wogglebug]]”, a sapient, talkative, human-sized wogglebug.  

On the day when he finally unveiled the now-adult and fully-educated “Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T. E.”, Doctor Know coyly “told his students that the lecture would be taught by a substitute for the day”. Visible annoyance made way to stark horror as the students caught sight of their new Professor, but “as the lecture started, and the auditorium started to calm down, their reactions quickly switched from grossed out to engrossed. The Doctor had never felt so proud of someone other than himself until that moment…”. He would go on to officially consider Professor Wogglebug his son, often interceding with the monarch of Oz to get him out of trouble. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over- There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') [[Ozma (925th Universe)|Ozma]] would later dub him the “Veritable Virtuoso of Macrology”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'')

Although primarily a version of the open-source character [[Doctor Know]], [[Callum Phillpott]]'s Doctor Know-It-All is also conflated with the preexisting public-domain [[Land of Oz|Oz]] character of [https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Nowitall Professor Nowitall], responsible for the enlargement of [[the Woggle-Bug]], as implied in ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'' when he mentions being familiar with [[Ozma]], and elaborated upon in ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen]]''.