Lampshades hung in the real world. * The radio frequency of 94.5 in the Kanawha Valley area of West Virginia used to be a rock station, aptly named "Z-Rock 94.5". The billboards promoting the station had the tagline "It's time to ROCK!" In December 2009, it was changed to a talk radio station. The tagline on the billboards was changed to "It's time to... talk." * When the Allies invaded Normandy, Adolf Hitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop, new paragraph. A German general mused on how improbable the situation was. * In the English court case of R v Collins, Edmund Davies LJ commented that "This is about as extraordinary a case as my brethren and I have ever heard.... Were [the facts] put into a novel or portrayed on the stage, they would be regard