I finally mastered the art of getting my enemies to yield, based on a suggestion from someone on this board. Simply sheath your weapon after they drop to their knees and beg and voila! So far it's been working for me in a lot of instances.

Number two! I found out you can harvest ore from stones by equipping your pickaxe and swinging it into the ore deposit. It's pretty neat.

Feel free to add your own little discoveries.

I also just noticed this not quite long ago. To be honest, I was suprised when I did.
Cool discovery anyways.

So if you put your weapon away they don't just get up and attack you again?

- you can kill butterflies and such bugs with Shouts
- you can make the beehive fall down by hitting it
- you can get a blessing from that lighthouse attacked by Falmer if you take remains of the family's father and bring his bones to the top - nice feature I missed the first time