Just what the title says.

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Pediatricians have found that showing cartoons during a patient exam lowers the pain response in children by 75%.

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan was influenced heavily by the then-controversial theories of Sigmund Freud.

Monday, March 29, 2004

Norway is the only country in the world with more indoor toilets than TV sets.

Friday, March 26, 2004

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was clinically dead for 2 minutes when she was 14 due to a near-drowning. The experience has made her a confirmed atheist.

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Early proposals for CSI: New York called for the lead investigator to be an older woman. Suggestions for this role ranged from Lily Tomlin, to Mary Tyler Moore, to Bea Arthur. The person who suggested Bea Arthur was fired.

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

The Secret Service codenames for Jenna and Barbara Bush are Goofus and Gallant.

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

25% of incunabula are bound with human skin. Many were the result of early incidents of protest against the abuses of corrupt Catholic priests.

Monday, March 22, 2004

Researchers are examining the idea that chlorophyll could be inserted into the human genetic makeup as a way to help alleviate food shortages.

Friday, March 19, 2004

The impotence drug Cialis was developed by researchers studying the erectile tissue in slug eyestalks.

Thursday, March 18, 2004

Farrah Fawcett hasn't used toilet paper since 1978. Her movie/TV contract states that there always has to be a bidet on set. When she is away from her house or set she carries a bottle of water with a spray tip.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Erik Estrada thinks that he owns the 3rd largest auto body shop chain in Mexico, but it is actually only the 12th largest.

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Worldwide, the animal most often responsible for human death is the water buffalo.

Monday, March 15, 2004

Tom DeLay suffered from the condition cornu cutaneum as a child and had an inch and half horn removed from his arm when he was 15.

Friday, March 12, 2004

Sean Connery is known in Bangkok as "Mr. Wetspot" because of an ad he did there for adult diapers.

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Although he never brings it up, Dennis Kucinich is universally acknowledged as the best pistol marksman in the U.S. Congress. Kucinich says that he enjoys the Zen-like concentration needed for target shooting and he claims it brings him "closer to the Divine".

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Every month dieting Americans lose weight equivalent to 2000 SUVs, while Americans who have recently stopped dieting gain weight equivalent to 2200 SUVs.

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

When it originally aired in 1974, The Land of the Lost was intended to be viewed as a political allegory, with the Marshall family representing the American people and the Sleestaks representing the corruption and secrecy of the Nixon administration.

Monday, March 08, 2004

Soap extras are often played by out-of-work porn stars. Soap directors like them because they look good on camera and aren't bothered by the fact that they don't have any lines.

Friday, March 05, 2004

Alicia Silverstone says gophers are "kinda shifty. They are one of the mammals I trust the least."

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Teddy Roosevelt made all his Cabinet Secretaries box with him for three rounds before he appointed them.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Some German "modern primitives" have begun to have artificial sagittal crests attached to their skulls to make them more like their hominid ancestors.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Based on the number of inhabitants diagnosed with a mental disorder as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders, Vol. 4, (DSM-IV), Tokyo is considered the most disturbed city in the world. 65% of Tokyo's disturbed are classified as suffering from a Sexual and Gender Identity Disorder.

Monday, March 01, 2004

7% of people in the United States suffer from persistent hallucinations.