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From 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan. 
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| The Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era. |
| According to the U.S. NIH, elective c-section and natural birth have "similar degrees of risk" for most women. |
| The Christian sect of Collegiants was formed in 1619 to defy the Synod of Dort, which had forced Holland to dismiss liberal ministers. |
| Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans. |
| The music video for the song "Vindaloo" was a direct parody of that of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, which was in turn a mocking recreation of the music video for "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack. |
| The native ornate plainchant of Benevento, Beneventan chant, co-existed with Gregorian chant for over a century before it was abolished by papal decree. |
| Perth Gaol was built in the 1850s to house convict labour, but by 1891, it was a geological museum. |
| In Japan, the Simpsons are better known for appearing in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show. |
| Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice. |
| M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double. |
| The blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler. |
| U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas, one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans, requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own. |
| The fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion. |
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