I thought there was a similar thread but can't find it. Anyway found a good thread online with many, some of them

I'll start with one: Johnny Cash was the first, if not one of the first, American to know that Stalin died

Chevy Chase played drums in a band that became Steely Dan.

Sometimes they turn Niagara falls off for maintenance

Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh are brothers-in-law

Birds that navigate by the stars are older than the zodiac. Several zodiacs. Constellations have come and gone over millions of years as the sun moves and stars die, and each generation of bird learns the current sky as a hatchling

The FBI spent a whole year investigating the lyrics to the Kingmen's hit song Louie Louie

What we call fish are actually several distinct groups of animals only very distantly related to each other.

Or to put it another way, a salmon is more closely related to your mom than it is to a shark

One of the favourite shades of paint used by Pre-Raphaelite painters, Mummy Brown, was made by adding ground up remains of Egyptian mummies


Ground up remains of mummified Egyptian people were also a popular pseudoscientific "cure-all" for everything (especially bruises).
The best part is that this practice is all based off a MISTRANSLATION of the arabic term "mūmiyā" which actually means bitumen (asphalt)

Judith Love Cohen NASA engineer helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to hospital the day she went in to labour. She finished the problem, let her boss know then gave birth to Jack Black

In a 1946 congressional race JFK ran against a guy named Joe Russo. Another guy named Joe Russo was encouraged to run and put on the ballot so voters wouldn't know which Joe Russo to vote for.

Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin, Tito and Freud all lived within 2 square miles of each other in Vienna in 1913

Your mouth hurts after eating a lot of pineapple because there is an enzyme in pineapple that is a meat tenderizer. Eventually, pineapple starts eating YOU!

In the late 60s, The Zombies already had disbanded by the time their music became popular in the US, so a company hired a couple fake bands to travel the country pretending to be The Zombies. One of those bands eventually became ZZ Top

Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman

Gary Numan has his pilot's license

Gary Oldman's sister is Big Mo Slater from Eastenders

The last guillotining in France occurred the year Star Wars first premiered

The amount of time between Stegosaurus and T Rex is almost 1/3rd longer than the time between T rex and today

Thought to be Forrest fires at the time but Japan bombed the United States mainland west coast during WW2 with Fu Go weather balloon bombs that utilized the Jet Stream

When André the Giant was a teenager, Samuel Beckett used to drive him to school.

Rosa Parks lived long enough to see Shrek 2 in theaters

There are about 150 million starlings in North America. They are all descended from 60 birds released in Central Park, by a guy whose motivation was to introduce them to America because they had been mentioned in Shakespeare

The winner of the 1904 Olympic marathon was disqualified because he rode half the race in a car waving to spectators. The next runner was severely dehydrated and his team gave him strychnine to keep him going. He was hallucinating for the last half of the race