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- Many of the tales recounted each night by Sharazade in the movie A Thousand and One Nights were set in Cairo.
- Fifty percent of the Egyptian population lives and works within 150 km of Cairo.
- Cairo is considered the greatest city in the Islamic world.
- During the 1950s the Egyptian film industry was the third largest in the world after Hollywood and Bombay.
- Cairo's metro was the first in the Arab world.
- The Great Pyramid of Khufu (built in 2750 BC) remained the tallest structure in the world until the construction of the Eiffel Tower (1889).
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- The first recorded strike in history occurred in Egypt in 1152 BC when the royal tomb builders refused to work because their supply of eye paint and moisturizing oil had been delayed.
- The ancient Egyptians (men and women) painted their eyes in the familiar elongated shape because the eye paint had a practical use, acting like sun glasses to reduce the glare of the sun.
- Queen Nefertiti had a taste for beer. She is shown drinking in several tomb scenes. She even had her own brewery in Armana.
- Khan El Khalili was named after Khalil, a Master of the Horse, who founded a caravanserai (hotel for travelers) here in 1382.
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- In the Khan, one of the several doors, called Bab Zwayla, provided a gruesome spectacle for visitors and residents in 15th century.
- The bodies of dishonest merchants were hung on the doors from hooks or ropes alongside other criminals that had been beheaded, garroted or impaled.
- It was also on that same door that Tumanbey, the last Mamluke Sultan, was hanged in 1517.
- Unfortunately for the Sultan the rope broke twice before his neck did.
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- Fishawi's Restaurant in the Khan has been open day and night for 200 years.
- The pyramids of Giza are the sole surviving Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- The native word for Egypt is Misr.
- In the Citadel, the Carriage Museum houses a large state carriage presented as a gift to Khediwe Ismail by Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie.
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