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TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the "Featherbed frame" ever since. 
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| The collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness, Great Southern Group, is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries. |
| Cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain. |
| After the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge. |
| Filipino politician Richard Gordon (pictured) is known for jumping on the scorer's table to rile up the crowd at Ateneo – La Salle games. |
| Jerry Rosenberg, New York's longest-incarcerated inmate, was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot. |
| The BMW R80G/S—launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built. |
| Anthracite, Alberta, now a ghost town, was once a hotspot for illegal activities. |
| Political boss Tom Pendergast made future DNC chair William M. Boyle a precinct captain even though he was too young to vote. |
| The recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo. |
| The Thorny Yellowwood (pictured) is an Australian rainforest tree with a spiky trunk. |
| Before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition. |
| The Ice Hotel in Québec, Canada, is the first ice hotel in North America. |
| Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazelnut Owl) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė. |
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