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• ...that the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion by Burger King?
• ...that Kelso Abbey took 15 years to complete, and was finally finished in 1243?
• ...that 14 people died in 1995 when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand, in the Cave Creek disaster?
• ...that the most common causes for an ingrown nails are improperly fitted shoes and nails that are improperly trimmed?
• ...that Luis Francisco Ojeda is a Puerto Rican television host?
• ...that Bobby Sherman became a very popular teen idol after his first single rose to #3 on the Billboard charts?
• ...that modern bicycle frames are usually founded on a diamond-frame design?
• ...that a muscle contraction occurs when a muscle fiber shortens?
• ...that the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio?
• ...that the Georgian Uprising of Texel is sometimes described as the last European battle of World War II?
• ...that both species of Corroboree frog are critically endangered?
• ...that enfleurage was once the only method for extracting essential oils from fragile flowers like jasmine and tuberose?
• ...that Nigeria has repeatedly called on Britain to return the Benin Empire artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes, just as Greece has petitioned for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
• ...that the Battle of Cape St. George on November 26, 1943 was the last time the Tokyo Express ran to the Solomon Islands?
• ... that text figures—a style of typesetting numerals with descenders—are the original style of Arabic numerals in the West and still often used?
• ...that the Marginated Tortoise is the largest European tortoise?
• ...that British Airways unveiled a new corporate identity in 1997 which involved repainting its fleet with around 20 striking tailfin designs by world artists?
• ...that Samuel Lawrence was a Canadian politician and trade unionist?
• ...that the Comedian Harmonists was one of the most successful pre-World War II musical groups in Europe of the 20th century?
• ...that the Z machine, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is the most powerful X-ray generator in the world?
• ...that the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from 1942 to 1943, was the last battle fought on United States soil?
• ...that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president?
• ...that the USS Pogy was named after a Californian trout and sank 16 ships during World War II?
• ...that the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th-century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas?
• ...that the judges on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, wear red robes, rather than the traditional black?
• ...that Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings were intended to decorate the bedroom of his friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin?
• ...that Pictish stones are the largest visual relics of Picts of Scotland?
• ...that Larnach Castle is one of only two castles in New Zealand?
• ...that ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?
• ...that the iconic Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point?
• ...that 1940s The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies?
• ...that the helix-turn-helix structural motif is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression?
• ...that the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. has hosted an Inaugural ball for every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge?
• ...that the Nephila genus of long-jawed orb weaver family of spiders spins gold-colored webs?
• ...that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous Eastern heathlands?
• ...that Joseph Schenck was the first chairman of 20th Century Fox?
• ...that World War I veteran and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer?
• ...that Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (the national library of Québec) began to share a facility with the public library of the city of Montréal in 2005?
• ...that the charitable organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in donations of cash and toys from the readers of the webcomic Penny Arcade?
• ...that a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe's Faust?
• ...that the Burgundian Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France?
• ...that there is some debate about whether a F9 or a Dm7sus4 (a major subtonic, bVII or dominant, V) chord opens the Beatles' ""A Hard Day's Night"?
• ...that the Chinese emperor Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan was overthrown by a peasant revolution, ending the Yuan Dynasty?
• ...that many bog bodies from the time of the Roman Iron Age have been found in southern Scandinavia?
• ...that Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was the first major socialist of the Netherlands?
• ...that market power is usually a predicate to anti-competitive behavior?
• ...that there's no Dr Pepper in a Flaming Doctor Pepper?
• ...that Toronto, Ontario was once known as "Methodist Rome"?
• ...that Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
• ...that crop losses caused by the desert locust are described in the Bible and the Qur'an?