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The original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. 
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| The ending of the South Park episode "Fatbeard" mirrors the resolution of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somalian pirates. |
| Bobby Cowell only played for one professional club during his entire football career (Newcastle United). |
| John Henry Turpin, who survived the catastrophic explosions of USS Maine in 1898 and USS Bennington in 1905, was one of the first African American Chief Petty Officers of the United States Navy. |
| The day the Parks and Recreation episode "Canvassing" aired on NBC, it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who. |
| The Anyangcheon, a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul City of South Korea, is home to a variety of wildlife such as goldfish, Grey Heron and Northern Shoveler. |
| The CQC-6 knife (pictured) by Ernest Emerson was first developed for a US Navy SEAL Team, and went on to popularize the concept of the "tactical folding knife". |
| David Shaw, who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage of the McMartin preschool trial, got his first writing job at age 16 filling in at a motorcycle race for an absent reporter?. |
| The first chapter of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari, an eleventh-century Japanese tale, no longer exists. |
| NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS. |
| George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a survivor of the Lydda Death March of July 1948. |
| After professional wrestler "the New Horror" Sami Callihan won the CZW Iron Man Championship, he renamed it the "CZW New Horror Championship". |
| The extreme luminosity observed for supernova 2005gj could be explained by the incidence of a quark nova. |
| Although Leo Wolman was once director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, his criticisms of unions led directly to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. |
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