My family likes to pop up with "little" items. Just 2 nights ago my father told us that his grandfather was had what was then today's equivalent of a PhD in Physics. We thought they were all miners, lol.
A few months ago my mother tells us HER great grandfather was a teacher, preacher, doctor, storeowner and farmer - all at the same time.
And one time during dinner my grandfather tells us the story of how he is the one who penned the "Holiday Inn" which later became the hotel's trademark
I also found out recently that for a brief period of time in WW2, I had a great uncle who was a general. Apparently then (maybe even now) they could promote you if they needed you for the task at hand, but then later demote you w/o it being a penalty type thing.
My father's mother told my mother that she (my father's mother) had been married at 15 to someone from the wrong side of the tracks. Her parents had the marriage annulled almost immediately and several years later she married my grandfather. No one knew about it until she told my mother - 50+ years after it happened.
OH, and I found out at Christmas that my aunt's first husband was gay (she had 2 kids with him) and her second husband died of a heart attack while with a Mexican hooker!!
We need to start writing this stuff down ;)