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John C. Ostlund, a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee, lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs. 
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| Bob Bruce of the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas was considered a "superb raconteur" and versatile journalist whose "institutional memory" empowered his newsroom colleagues. |
| François Coignet was the first builder to use iron reinforced concrete. |
| The officers' mess hall at Camp Abbot military training center was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944, and is now the "Great Hall" at Sunriver Resort. |
| singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt. |
| Bronson Pinchot spent three months visiting psychics to prepare for his role in the 1989 comedy film Second Sight. |
| Gustav Natvig-Pedersen, a President of the Storting in Norway, also wrote orthographic dictionaries. |
| The Second Baptist Church is the only Greek Revival church remaining in Poughkeepsie, New York. |
| The zebra shark (pictured) is striped when young and spotted when mature. |
| John "Bam" Carney, a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach?. |
| California radio station KOWL's original radio studios were located inside the Harrah's Stateline Club, a casino in Stateline, Nevada. |
| motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo. |
| 18-year-old Jay Weinberg is touring with Bruce Springsteen as the E Street Band's drummer while his father, Max Weinberg, prepares for the June premiere of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. |
| The 12–6 curveball gets its name from the way the pitch breaks downward, looking like it moves from the number 12 to the number 6 on a clock. |
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