Unbelievable facts

This does not mean every Nigerian in America has the same background. The Census Bureau explained that education was an important reason many Nigerians moved to the United States, so the immigration process itself selected a highly educated group.

In 2013, Nigerian cook Harrison Okene was on a tugboat that flipped and sank, trapping him upside down under the sea. He survived almost three days in a small air pocket, in total darkness, about 30 meters deep. Divers later found him alive and brought him out safely.

The BBC wiped or threw away many old Doctor Who recordings decades ago, so fans thought some episodes were gone forever. In 2013, 11 film recordings were found at a television relay station in Nigeria, including nine episodes that had been missing from the BBC archive.

A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Samuel Achilefu, led a team that developed high-tech goggles to help surgeons detect cancer cells more accurately.

The two sides involved in the Nigerian civil war in 1967 agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so that they could watch Pele play in Nigeria.

Nigerian scammer Emmanuel Nwude once convinced a major international bank to invest $242 million in a fake airport, and the scam wasn’t discovered until three years later.