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While the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches, 1959's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island. 
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| troco (pictured), also called "trucks" or "lawn billiards", is a traditional English lawn game played with wooden balls and long-handled cues at the ends of which are spoonlike ovals of iron. |
| Luis Palau, an evangelical minister based in Portland, Oregon, has collaborated with government leaders in Portland and neighboring cities, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness. |
| The Malay kite, a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, is known to have provided the inspiration for the now very widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design. |
| In a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean. |
| Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older. |
| At a cost of $7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world. |
| on a per capita basis, foreign aid donated by Saudi Arabia is one of the highest in the world. |
| Myrialepis paradoxa, a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia, is used to make thatched baskets. |
| The parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured). |
| Chai Trong-rong, a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang's black list. |
| Mary Meader, best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist, once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University. |
| The Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950. |
| Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile. |
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