Scientists and engineers estimate that the human body only needs 163 of the 206 bones making up the skeleton to survive. Some people have started identifying these bones and having them removed in an effort to "become more perfect". The current lowest count is a man in India whose skeleton currently only has 184 bones, and functions perfectly well.

The bridal veil was originally developed to allow parents to pass off their less-attractive daughters.

It's possible to lose over 15 pounds in two days solely from crying.

Singer Toby Keith has a spittoon in every room of his house. He consumes over 3 packages of chewing tobacco a day. He has practiced enough so that he can regularly hit the spittoon from over 10 feets away. Unfortunately, the practice required for his accuracy has caused him to spend over $17,000 to replace rugs ruined by tobacco juice.

There is a long-standing rumor that it is illegal in Tucson, Arizona for women to wear pants. This is untrue. Although such a law was proposed by in the 1920s, it was not enacted as popularly supposed. Due to a typographical error it is illegal for anyone to wear pants in Tucson, female or male.

Actor/assassin John Wilkes Booth had a small, but profitable, business breeding and selling slugs to European theater companies. The slugs were used in plays to add a realistic touch. Booth's Spectacular Slugs were justly famous within the theater community for their size and wide variety of colorings.

Liquid dishwashing detergent is the third most commonly used sexual lubricant.

Russian scientists have discovered a way to keep organs living after death for up to three years, but the organs are rendered useless due to the fact that they all develop vestigial eyes.

Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, has never learned how to tie her shoes. She either wears slip-on shoes, or has someone else put her shoes on for her.

Rush Limbaugh keeps a baggy full of cooked bacon in his pocket at all times in case he eats a meal that, in his words, "needs a little pickup".

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee used to keep an opossum, nicknamed Bitey, as a pet in the Arkansas State House. He would bring it out to show visitors as a way to break the ice at meetings. But one night, a cleaning woman accidentally surprised the animal and it played dead. She, thinking it actually dead, threw it in the trash outside in an effort to hide the evidence of her "crime". Governor Huckabee missed the possum the next day, and ordered an immediate search and investigation. He quickly got to the bottom of the story. In his grief, he ordered all the flags flown at half mast at all state government buildings. He is now thinking of purchasing a ferret.

Every member of the National Diet of Japan practices scarification. By contrast, only 32 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are known to practice scarification.

Once a year, Clint Eastwood eats an entire deep-fried turkey by himself. He doesn't do it in one sitting, but takes about a week and a half to consume every scrap of meat on the carcass. He has never fully explained why he does this. A friend worked up the courage to ask him about it once, but Eastwood just stared at him for thirty seconds and then turned away mumbling "..saved my life...sacred duty..." He has never talked to that friend again.

The average human being has mucus in their sinuses that is over five years old.

Talkshow host Jerry Springer suffers from intense migraine headaches. In addition to extreme pain and a sensitivity to light, these headaches also cause some unusual visual effects. When suffering from a headache, Springer can't see himself in the mirror. The first of these headaches manifested itself after a night out drinking, and Springer was convinced that he had been turned into a vampire by woman he met in a bar. He used his experiences as show ideas. He did one show on migraine sufferers and one on vampires.

The desk of the president of the Hershey Company is made from a heavily varnished slab of pure dark chocolate.

A U.S. dollar bill can absorb over 50x its weight in liquid. They are often used to clean up after drug-related murders.

The state of Washington has recognized that "homicidal fury triggered by extreme coulrophobia" is a legitimate murder defense. Coulrophobia is a fear of clowns.

Orson Wells was able to do the splits even when he weighed over 350 pounds. However once he was in the position he couldn't get out without the help of at least three men. This led to some embarassing encounters when he performed the splits during sex and got stuck.

After John Gotti was diagnosed with throat cancer, he wanted to smoke so badly that he punctured his ear drum and learned how to draw the smoke in through his ear.

Microsoft has been exploring the possibility of tattoos with magnetic ink to allow access to buildings on its campus without the need for an ID badge. At least three Christians have quit because of these reports, regarding the tattoos as the literal "Mark of the Beast" from the Book of Revelations.

Until 1916, all executions in Switzerland took place using a knife made of a specially-hardened (and very sharp) cheese known as Sbrinz. The cheese knife was abandoned when one broke during the killing thrust. Other cheese-based methods of killing were explored, but the only one that was considered feasible (crushing the criminal under a one-ton block of Pecorino cheese) was rejected on two grounds, 1) it was more expensive, and 2) it was foreign cheese.