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Ilha dos Marinheiros, the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande, Brazil. 
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| blackfin scad (pictured) is a popular food fish in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is served fried, steamed or baked. |
| Eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history. |
| Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China had Wu Youji’s wife secretly killed in 690 CE so that he could marry her widowed daughter, the Princess Taiping. |
| Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac, was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead". |
| Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia. |
| Former Chicago Blackhawks player Al Suomi was offered a contract to play with a local St. Louis, Missouri hockey team at the age of 93. |
| A poll conducted in 2006 indicated that 26% of Americans say the United States "should not be involved" with the United Nations. |
| The Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train, despite completing a 42-mile line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars. |
| Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list. |
| fingerboards, are reduced scale model figures of skateboards, that are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers. |
| Navajo rugs (pictured) sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850. |
| The Faun, a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin, displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh. |
| carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era. |
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