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Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement, Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India. 
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| Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days. |
| Participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped. |
| Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works. |
| Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled. |
| The port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon. |
| The pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman (pictured) is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans. |
| Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look," a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s. |
| According to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity". |
| The ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism". |
| Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block. |
| Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death. |
| 18% of all deaths occuring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures. |
| The Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out. |
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