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Although he is famous for inventing the Crampton locomotive, Thomas Crampton was also responsible for the world's first international submarine telegraph cable. 
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| Since 1947, the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London, in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII. |
| Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto. |
| The Czapski Palace (pictured) in Warsaw has been the home of Frederick Chopin, Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid. |
| Dorothy Liebes, known as "the mother of modern weaving", made fabrics out of feathers, bamboo, leather strips, plastic, and ticker tape?. |
| In 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association. |
| Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email. |
| The Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders. |
| Geoffrey Cornish, a golf course architect, has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career. |
| All of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town. |
| concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006. |
| The chupare stingray (pictured) and the Pacific chupare are the closest marine relatives of the South American river stingrays. |
| Billy Joel's hit song "I Go to Extremes" was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley, for his erratic behavior. |
| The Norton Jubilee was the smallest capacity motorcycle ever made by Norton. |
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