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The Parc de Belleville is the highest park in Paris and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain. 
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| The Rum Swizzle is often called "Bermuda's national drink". |
| Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning. |
| Hendrik van den Bergh founded the South African Bureau of State Security in 1969 to coordinate intelligence gathering and suppress anti-apartheid dissidents. |
| The red mushroom Russula sanguinaria, known as the "bloody brittlegill", smells fruity but is hot tasting. |
| Temple Sinai, a Reform synagogue in Oakland, California, grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1875. |
| The Sigtuna box has a runic poem that threatens thieves, but in a metre that was usually reserved for Viking lords and kings. |
| birds' eyes have three lids, including the nictitating membrane (pictured), which moves across the eyeball horizontally. |
| The Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. |
| Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone. |
| An owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States. |
| Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu, introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America, is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu". |
| The Vector Field Histogram (VFH) algorithm used in robotic motion planning received two major updates after its original creation in 1991, which were renamed as VFH+ and VFH*. |
| The Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Station was a target of serial vandalism in March 2006. |
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