Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 'Chicken of Tomorrow' Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.
Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in the Matrix. He starred in Wild Wild West instead.
The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.