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• the Hungarian politician and Nazi collaborator Andor Jaross was also president of the football (soccer) club Ferencvárosi TC?
• the Byzantine Komnenian army was deployed in places as far-ranging as Italy, Hungary, and Egypt, and was instrumental in the Komnenian restoration of the empire?
• the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees?
• the Cave Bath of Miskolc, Hungary is an unusual thermal bath with low salt content, in a natural cave, that allows people to take a bath for a longer time?
• the Hungarian Gold Train was a 1944 Nazi operated freight train that carried stolen Hungarian valuables to Berlin, but never reached its destination?
• prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes, in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
• in the Siege of Esztergom (1543), the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman captured the Hungarian city of Esztergom with the support of French artillery?
• during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
• during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary no fewer than 75 Turkish baths were built in the Hungarian eyalets?
• hundreds of love padlocks (pictured) have been attached to a fence in Pécs, Hungary by couples professing their commitment to one another?
• in 1949 the Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak socialist parties founded the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe as a common centre for work in exile?
• the Knightly Order of Vitéz, formed by Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, for distinguished World War I veterans, was originally established by Imre Thököly, Prince of Transylvania, during an anti-Habsburg uprising in the late 17th century?
• the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
• the television adaptation of Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary?
• the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized?
• the well-known Tourist guy is a Hungarian?
• the white wine grape Furmint is said to have been introduced to Hungary after the 13th-century Mongolian invasion, by immigrants recruited by King Béla IV?
• tradition traces Clan Drummond, a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire, to Hungarian origins?
• the last Hungarian inhabitants of Niedzica Castle, Poland, (pictured) remained there until 1943 when the coming of the Soviet front in World War II inspired the last countess to abandon it with her children?
• the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hochstetter family were for a time on a par with the Fugger and the Welser controlling metal ores in Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Tyrol?
• the Philharmonia Hungarica made the first complete recording of Haydn's symphonies, was an orchestra founded by Hungarian exiles and funded by the West German government during the Cold War?
• the Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reverse effect?
• the assumption of modern historians that Elisabeth of Greater Poland is a daughter of Elisabeth of Hungary is based on them sharing the same name and coming from Hungary?
• the copper roof of Hungary's Óbuda Synagogue was melted down to make weapons during World War I?
• at the Battle of Baia (pictured), Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus was struck by three arrows and almost died?
• as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
• Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?
• Hungarian company Zsolnay (its fountain pictured), known for its manufacture of decorative tiles, became the largest company in Austro-Hungary prior to WWI?
• Hungarian-born Commando George Lane was spared execution after taking tea with Rommel?
• Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa?
• Peter Wolf Toth created a Trail of the Whispering Giants (giant pictured) that winds through every U.S. state, two Canadian provinces, and even Hungary?
• Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May, the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849)?
• Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin, to paint 1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who had died there recently?
• Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
• Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
• Hungarian long jumper and triple jumper Gyula Pálóczi has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the European Athletic Association?
• Hungarian István Major held the high jump record at the European Indoor Championships from 1972 to 1977?
• Szeged's public transport company is one of only four city transport companies that operate tram service in Hungary?
• "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?" received three perfect scores at the start of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth, making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting?
• a Franco-Hungarian alliance was formed in October 1528 between Francis I of France and Zapolya of Hungary?
• a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, including official persecution of Jews, failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary?
• actress India de Beaufort prepared for her exotic dance in the Kröd Mändoon episode "Golden Powers" by studying pole dancing at a Hungarian strip club?
• although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
• Szinva Terrace, the newest public square in Miskolc, Hungary, features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
• Mihály Iglói coached Hungarian and American distance runners to set a total of 49 world records?
• Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt?
• forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot (corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary?
• Jacob Svetoslav (pictured on coin), a 13th-century Bulgarian noble of Russian origin and ruler of Vidin, twice changed allegiance between Hungary and Bulgaria and vice versa before possibly being poisoned?
• Mangalitsa (pictured) is a lard-type pig breed that was the most prominent swine breed in Hungary until 1950?
• amphibious tanks which were used on D-Day were developed by Nicholas Straussler from Hungary?

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