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Not intended as competition for the "Really interesting" thread, a place for our own QI style facts that we come across.
 
The passing of popular children's novelist and Christian Appologist, C.S.Lewis, went largely unnoticed and unreported in the world media despite him being a figure of somewhat international renown and no great age. This was due to him passing on the same day that JFK was assassinated.

 
In the 1960s the CIA surgically implanted listening equpment into cats in an attempt to infiltrate the Kremlin, the operation was called Acoustic Kitty.

 
Initially O J Simpson was cast to play The Terminator, only for him to be replaced by Arnie as the studio did not think he would be accepted as a remorseless killer.

 
Speaking of coulda been- Operation Northwoods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods-

If JFK hadn't vetoed it, the CIA would have done fake terrorist attacks including hijackings and bombings on it's own American citizens, followed by planting phony evidence to blame it on Cuba, to enable them to ''retaliate'' and invade the newly communist country.

Makes you think hey? I wonder if George Bush would have vetoed such a plan :69:
 
The space ship in Alien was named The Nostromo after the Joseph Conrad novel of the same name, subsequently in the sequel James Cameron named his space ship The Sulaco, a town in the book by Conrad.

The escape shuttle in Alien is named Narcissus, an allusion to another of Conrad's works - The ****** of The Narcissus.
 
One of the ways the Government track the settlement of illegal immigrants is the increase in sewage
 
Jim Broadbent turned down the role of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, but later played the role of Detective Slater.
 
The fact "There are more people alive today than anyone that has lived and died in the past" is a myth. According to the Population Reference Bureau approximately 107 billion people have lived and died on the planet, compared to 7 billion alive today.
 
On September 26, 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union twice reported the launch of American Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
 
Kittens mew to their mother for attention. However an adult cats meow is a communication to humans exclusively and not other cats, this is thought to be the result of domestication.
 
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