- ... that at the 2012 Olympics, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in judo?
- ... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics American javelin thrower Craig Kinsley had never competed in an international competition?
- ... that the Connecticut Supreme Court found that giving the finger was offensive, but not obscene?
- ... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored Mary Dyer to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a Quaker martyr?
- ... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?
