The world's first automatic door was installed in a New York City stip club in 1916. It was installed to show how welcoming and friendly the establishment was, and that anyone could come in and enjoy the show.

In 2004, there were 6 cases of road rage that involved a bow and arrow instead of a gun.

Raccoons have been observed tying at least four different types of knots in pieces of string. They seem to tie knots for the sheer fun of it.

Babies born in Vatican City (Note: this is, of course, limited to tourist who misjudge their due date. Although the numbers are small there have been enough over the years for a valid sample size.) are an average of 6 inches taller than babies of the mothers' native country. In addition to this unusual height advantage, every baby born in Vatican City is personally blessed by the Pope. No one is sure what is the cause of the height gain, but some researchers suggest that religious ecstasy may trigger horomonal changes in the mother's bloodstream that increase the babies' growth rate. This is all extremely speculative, because no Vatican mother has every allowed themselves or their child to be examined by scientists.

The Ancient Romans were the first people to invent a carbonated non-alcoholic drink. It was called Agricola's drink, after its inventor Gnaeus Julius Agricola. That was eventually shortened to Agricola and then just cola. Although the recipe of the Roman drink has been lost to time, the name cola was revived with the invention of soft drinks in the late 19th century.

More money is bet on bocce games, per player, than any other sport.

78% of fur coats produced outside of the United States are made with cat hair.

The mule deer can expel its feces at over 60 miles an hour. They use this ability to drive away predators. They can stun a bobcat for a few seconds with a high speed fecal pellet barrage and use that time to escape.

Woody Harrelson had marijuana centerpieces on the tables of all his wedding guests.

Actor Mark Hamill has no body hair at all. He was stricken with Allopecia in 2002. When he makes personal appearances now all his hair is a wig.

For a brief period in early 1971, Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman, fired his butler Alfred for getting high.

The fastest-growing political party in the United States is the Anarchist Party.

The ancient Aztec worshipped the avocado as the material bounty of one of their gods, Aguacototl. Early Catholic priests used guacamole and tortilla instead of wine and communion wafers in an attempt to blend local custom with Catholic belief.

The average Illinois resident eats the equivalent of a cow's worth of beef every year.

George Clooney has multiple tissue and blood samples in various secure locations so that when cloning technology advances he can have new body parts cloned.

One cup of dry dog food has twice the nutritional value of a Big Mac and three times the fiber.

96% of the world's population has never driven a motorized vehicle.

3% of weddings in the United States occur in animal shelters. In almost all of those weddings the participants' pets were involved as ringbearers.

87% of teenage girls have at least two pounds of hair in their stomach by the time they are 18 from absent-mindedly sucking on the ends of their hair.

Despite the fact that there is no firm evidence for its existence, every major casino in Las Vegas has people trained to look for evidence of telekinesis, or the power to move objects with one's mind.

79% of Americans name at least one of their body parts.

Peter Jennings was born without kneecaps. He has to use special braces to allow him to walk.