- Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the well known novel by Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice.
- The secure seedbank called the Global Seed Vault is sited on the isle of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.
- Drunkorexia is the coined term for the practice of young women starving themselves so that they can drink alcohol in the belief that they will not gain weight.
- When water freezes it expands.
- Ray Lawler wrote the Australian play The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll which was first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, on 28 November 1955.
- The common name for dihydrogen monoxide is water.
- The American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes was Bill Watterson.
- Angela Lansbury played mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the TV Series Murder She Wrote.
- Middle Eastern Lake Tiberas is better known by the Sea of Galilee.
- The official Scottish title for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is The Countess of Strathearn.
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