... that Sir Peter Lely's series of portraits, the Flagmen of Lowestoft , commemorates English naval commanders who fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665?

... that the man behind the courteous baritone "Mind the gap" announcements in the Delhi Metro is Shammi Narang?

... that the Livingstone Museum, opened in 1934, is the oldest and largest museum in Zambia?

... that Fay Ajzenberg-Selove had to fight a discrimination case against the University of Pennsylvania to be hired as a tenured professor of physics?

... that Winston Churchill's funeral train carried the headcode of a breakdown train?

... that the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act freed slaves in Washington, D.C. almost nine months before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation?

... that one sickly lion, two Swedish kings, and 128 cannons were involved in the history of the orangery of Uppsala's Botanical Garden?