Template:Are You Sure/August 8

• ... that David Hilbert gave a talk on this day 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in which he described ten of his proposed twenty four mathematical problems?

• ... that Roller Boogie Nights is 1979 American period drama film starring Linda Blair and Jim Bray, a former competitive artistic skater from California; and that it is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young skating rink concession booth dishwasher who becomes a popular star of illegal rollerskating deathmatch games, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Roller-Killing of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 1980s?

• ... that self-destruction, like charity, begins at home?