- ... that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage (pictured), in lieu of his own portrait?
- ... that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
- ... that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
- ... that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
- ... that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
- ... that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
- ... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
- ... that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
- ... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?
- The Iberian lynx (pictured) is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
- American baseball player Willie Mays dies at the age of 93.
- In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals.
- A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people.
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