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The oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost". 
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| In his 1963 speech "Message to the Grass Roots", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus". |
| botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895. |
| Tulsa's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School. |
| The Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of "Raja". |
| SS Governor Cobb, built in 1906, was America's first turbine-powered steamship, and later, as USCGC Cobb, the world's first helicopter carrier. |
| Pointe des Almadies (pictured) is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa. |
| The 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District, Cambodia, covers more than half-a-million square feet. |
| A track on the Soviettes' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1. |
| In 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days. |
| Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama. |
| race car driver Pocholo Ramirez raced competitively into his 70s. |
| Two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin, the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode "Two Weeks". |
| A library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands. |
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