... that the Gray-crowned Rosy Finch (pictured) may breed at a higher altitude than any other breeding bird in North America?

... that Elizabeth Báthory, known as the "Blood Countess" because of her reign of terror, torturing and murdering hundreds of women, once resided at the Burg Lockenhaus?

... that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong?

... that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior, grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung?

... that Rami Levi introduced supermarket price wars to Israel?

... that all five of Owais Ahmed's in the money finishes at the 2011 World Series of Poker were in Mixed poker games?

... that Martin Luther's chorale Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (From deep affliction I cry out to you) was sung at his own funeral?

... that the 1987 baseball film Long Gone, starring William Petersen, has been described as "three parts Bull Durham, two parts Slap Shot, add a dose of Bingo Long and a pinch of The Longest Yard"?