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During the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2, Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers. 
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| Historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota. |
| Georgia’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122. |
| Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997. |
| Most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection. |
| Sanford N. McDonnell, the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America. |
| Though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end, the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved. |
| Parlophone's "₤" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company. |
| When the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803, a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir), but only caused a superficial crack on one side. |
| Sillustani is a pre-Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas. |
| Beekman Winthrop, the third American Governor of Puerto Rico, was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, the first Governor of Connecticut. |
| A cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637. |
| Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali. |
| Some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, written 66 years later. |
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