I did a year in High School in Brookfield, Connecticut as an exchange student in the mid 80's. One of my good friends was Bill Westenhofer who has won an Oscar and a Bafta for the special effects in Golden Compass.
I once asked Kari Wuhrer out on a date but she was busy doing a play (she's now a Holywood actress)
When I was in the Danish Air Force I frequently ate lunch with Prince Joakim (well, he was in the same cafeteria)
I have had a R/C aircraft design published in Model Flyer
There was a picture of me and my daugther on the BBC News pages. We are actually sitting in the Gaz69M but you can only see one of the rear benches. It was from when we ran a business called Indoor Flyer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7035605.stm
I have a friend in the US, Dave Burley, who used to work for NASA and built something that actually went to Mars!
I know the guy who drives the Gaz 67 in "Enemy at the gates" (he is also the owner of the Gaz).
I'm friends with the guy who invented the PicooZ toy helicopter and had to issue a written statment as an "expert in micro R/C technology" when the manufacturer were taking copy-cats to the courts.