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Wilhelm Koppe, one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade. 
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| Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than 400 films from 1909 to 1935. |
| The Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth. |
| In 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed 5 miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977. |
| The Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon. |
| Despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once (1983), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records. |
| Recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge. |
| In the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine. |
| "Push It to the Limit", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store. |
| Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him. |
| An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (pictured) depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out by Robert Boyle over a hundred years earlier. |
| Many of the image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology. |
| Future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945. |
| The medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base. |
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