Brain -The first computer virus was created by two brothers from Pakistan. They just wanted to prevent their customers of making illegal software copies
The train scene from Buster Keaton’s “The General” is the most expensive scene in silent film history
Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS is a conspiracy, went out of print after all the editors died of AIDS
Mademoiselle Maupin – The opera singer who beat men in duels as a swordswoman. Oh, and she rescued her lesbian lover from a convent
A Vietnamese refugee ship was rescued by an Israeli cargo vessel in 1977. The refugees were offered water, food and Israeli citizenship
Violet Jessop – “Miss Unsinkable” who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic, the HMHS Britannic and the collision of RMS Olympic