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The palm Dictyosperma album (pictured) in the Mascarene Islands is commonly called "hurricane palm" because of its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves. 
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| Though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s. |
| The prehistoric marine reptile Excalibosaurus (pictured) was named after King Arthur's sword because of the sword-like appearance of its upper jaw. |
| The Efficiency Medal of Great Britain and the Commonwealth in almost seventy years was awarded with three different ribbons in over thirty separate countries, and featured three monarchs wearing four distinct crowns. |
| Stoke City F.C. is the second-oldest English football league club, as it was founded in 1863. |
| When the great Italian medalist and sculptor Leone Leoni was accused of counterfeiting by Pope Paul III's jeweler in 1540, he came so close to killing the man that he was sent to the galleys. |
| The pentadic numbers on the Spirit Pond runestones have led to speculation that they contain an authentic record of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition to Maine in 1010. |
| "Being Boiled," the first single by The Human League, cost just £2.50 to record. |
| The first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian. |
| The developer of the Mendota Hills Wind Farm (pictured) provided landowners with contracts for up to $1,500 per megawatt of electricity produced by wind turbines on their land. |
| Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his execution. |
| W. Gene Corley investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center, as well as the performance of the Murrah Building in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. |
| The Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident. |
| The novel Pioneer, Go Home! (adapted into the Elvis movie Follow that Dream) was inspired by squatters who settled on land created when Florida built a bridge to Pine Island. |
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