Asia Carrera chose to be a porn star despite having an I.Q of 156.

OJ Simpsons was considered for the role of The Terminator but James Cameron couldn’t imagine such a nice guy playing the role of a ruthless killer.

Two rival Helicopter pilots, who captured police chase footage of OJ Simpson, have since both had sex change operations and become female friends.

In 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter.

George Washington ordered a ceasefire during the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to its owner.

Dogs can tell time by smell.

Nearly 3,000 euros are thrown into Rome’s Trevi fountain every day, totaling over a million in the course of a year.

There is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind.

The Nazis staged an entire ghetto of Jewish prisoners in 1944 as a “spa town” to deceive the Red Cross about the Jews' conditions.

At its peak in the early 20th century an Automat chain was one of the largest restaurant chains in the world, serving 800,000 people daily.

All the urinals and toilets aboard the Iowa class battleships use saltwater to conserve valuable fresh water.

When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years back pay as proof of good faith.

The Friends cast each receive $20m royalties per year and NBC receives $1bn in revenue.

Speed reader Kim Peek could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye.