Westeros is even more rich and complex than you thought!
After losing a bet, George R.R. Martin had to add a character to A Dance with Dragons named Sir Patrek of King's Mountain. The character's heraldry looks like the Dallas Cowboys' logo, and he was killed by giants within the story.
Martin had a standing bet with his friend Patrick St. Denis that if the Dallas Cowboys ever had a better season than the New York Giants, he'd make St. Denis into a character in one of his books and have him brutally ripped apart by giants.
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When the heights of the characters from the books are compared, dire wolves tower over most. This is drastically different in the TV series.
Bastards wear their house colors inverted, so Jon Snow would wear a white wolf on a gray background, making his albino dire wolf, Ghost, a perfect companion.
img: giphy.com / fact: reddit.com
In 2012, there were over 160 babies named "Khaleesi" in the United States. (Even though it's a title, not a name.)
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