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Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle. 
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| The Stuart Oil Shale Project, the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale, was in operation only five years. |
| Part of the first line of the Berlin U-Bahn was built as an elevated railway (pictured), because the City of Berlin feared that an underground railway would damage one of its new trunk sewers. |
| Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot, flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II. |
| papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects. |
| Motza, founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem. |
| 64Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)), a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper, has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity. |
| Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party. |
| The 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders. |
| Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity. |
| The Christina Lake in British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps. |
| Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem. |
| In 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou. |
| The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the 7 full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault's broken leg limited him to 55 game. |
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