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In 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent. 
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| Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering. |
| The British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry. |
| Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school. |
| As governor of Davao del Norte, Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998. |
| Despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the baseball memoir Odd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate. |
| The unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus (pictured) gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings. |
| A "no ID, no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID. |
| Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh. |
| While Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files, some were subsequently found. |
| Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games. |
| Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, was also an opera critic and radio personality. |
| The first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold (pictured) was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII. |
| Pungent Stench's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast. |
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