- ... that the tiger in the Coat of arms of Singapore (pictured) represents Malaysia?
- ... that during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA?
- ... that Choa Chu Kang Community Library was the first library in Singapore to install self-check machines for borrowing and returning of books?
- ... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
- ... that 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore’s Kent Ridge Park?