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The Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuwen Rong was known in traditional history to have served for 100 days—even though he only served 99 days. 
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| London's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue. |
| So many Chinese actresses have gained recognition from starring with Stephen "Sing Yeh" Chow (pictured), they are collectively known as Sing girls. |
| Alfred Henningsen, three-term member of the Storting, has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin". |
| The rust fungus Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is the first plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent. |
| Irish playwright Hamilton Deane introduced the tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel. |
| Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970. |
| The Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland. |
| Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter, and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color. |
| In 2005, researchers at the Spanish National Research Council wrote the first ten lines of Don Quixote on a few square microns of silicon, using local oxidation nanolithography (process pictured). |
| KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck. |
| Although its fossils were first discovered in 1946, the pliosaurid genus Gallardosaurus was not declared a valid taxon until 2009. |
| A 1977 memo by Robert Derzon, overseer of U.S. Medicaid/Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child. |
| Sugarland's 2009 single "Joey" was co-written by Bill Anderson. |
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