... that golfer Edith Cummings (pictured) was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the inspiration for a character in The Great Gatsby?
... that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests, India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration, committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict?
... that Aaron Lopez, who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish, later became Newport's wealthiest resident?
... that before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
... that Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
... that the Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative?
... that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle?
... that lithophane is an artwork in porcelain that can only be seen clearly when back lit with a light source?
... that John Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate of appendectomies as an intervention for signs of appendicitis?
... that the Gauliga was a German football league system introduced by the Nazis after they took over the country in 1933?
... that the Oregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after the Korean War began?
... that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
... that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
... that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges?
... that Run, Buddy, Run, a 1966 CBS sitcom, featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder?
... that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch, a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
... that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines, which are rare within the United States?
... that Outwood is the oldest working windmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the Great Fire of London?
... that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies?
... that sociology was banned as a bourgeois science by the Polish government in the Stalinist period 1948–1956?
... that Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
... that the accolade was a ceremony for knighthood in the Middle Ages?
... that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory's Australian of the Year in 2006?
... that the Atlantic bumper is only found in the Atlantic Ocean because its ecological niche is filled by the only other member of its genus elsewhere?
... that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters?
... that after a chest injury, air can escape from the lungs and travel to the subcutaneous tissue of the skin, causing subcutaneous emphysema?
... that Oladevi, a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal?
... that Reigate Heath Windmill is the only windmill in England that has been consecrated as a church?
... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps?
