Did you know?
- Greyscale the illness of princess Shireen is based on an actual diseas called Leprosy which causes skin lesions.
- Aemon Targarean played by Peter Vaughan is actually blind in real life.
- There is a real life equivalent to Valerian Steel, and it is called Damascus Steel a practice which ceased to exist in the 18th century.
- In 2011 George R. Martin’s mail was stolen, along with the scripts of Season 1 Episodes 9 and 10.
- Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world, in 2012 one episode was downloaded a total of 4,280,000 times.
- For season 4, to adult film stars were cast in Game of Thrones.
- There are 70 different ways of saying Hodor.
- The Purple Wedding is an event that happened in real life, at the wedding of England’s King Stephen’s Son, in 1153.
- Sansa actually adopted Lady, the pet which plays the Direwolf in the series.
- Visery’s Targarean or Harry Loyd is actually Charles Dickens’ great-great-great grandson.
- The actor who plays Theon Greyjoy, is actually singer Lilly Allen’s Brother Alfie Allen.
- The horse heart which Khaleesi eats is actually made of gummy bears.