Kim Il-Sung's grandson, Jong-Nam, was sacked as heir to North Korea after being arrested
trying to enter Japan on a false passport to visit Disneyland
When customers visited the UK's first supermarkets
they were afraid to pick up goods in case they were told off.
Since smoking was banned in 2004, the main currency in US prisons is mackerel.
It was 33 years after loo paper was invented in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that it could finally
be advertised as 'splinter free'.
The shortest war ever fought was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Kestrels can locate voles from the sky because of ultra-violet light reflected by their urine.
Bubblewrap was first produced in a New Jersey garage in 1957.
Its inventors were trying to make easy-wipe textured wallpaper.
Between 1917 and 1940, the cure for patients with syphilis was to give them malaria.
Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has travelled only a third of its way round the Sun.
The proud owner of the first silicone breast implant was a dog called Esmeralda.
Nelson Mandela was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008.
Almost half of all Americans today are classified as 'living in poverty'. 46% pay no income
tax.
The word hundred is derived from the word "hundrath", which actually means 120 and not
100.
Sucking a king's nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland.
In Japan, Tintin is called Tantan because Tintin is pronounced 'Chin-Chin' and means
'penis'.