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- ...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania (pictured) is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
- ...that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?
- ...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
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