Comedian/actor Billy Crystal spends over $4000 a year on prepaid cellular phones that he uses to make prank phone calls. He claims that it keeps his "comic chops" fresh. He even tried to claim it as a business expense on his tax return until his accountant talked him out of it.

Climbing the stairs one at a time burns over three times more calories than taking them two at a time. This is independent of the size of the stairs.

Over 300,000 U.S. male college students work their way through school as gigolos.

The United States Government has spent over $40,000,000 trying to establish a 18 hole golf course in Iraq. The security for the course is on par with the Green Zone in Baghdad. The course uses enough water to serve 15,000 Iraqis daily. Despite the money and security, no one has ever played on it.

William Shatner has a law degree from the Univesity of Iowa. He frequently acts as a legal consultant on his TV show, Boston Legal. He has never tried any cases, but he frequently helps fellow actors with contract questions.

When drunk, actor Nick Nolte punches people who are wearing Bluetooth headsets. He says that it is a "matter of general principle and common decency". He has steadfastly refused to apologize for any of the incidents, drunk or sober.

Actress Scarlett Johansson requires all of her lovers to be able to fit into the custom-designed condoms that she orders. The condoms are designed to only fit men who are best sized to please her.

Toward the end of his life, professional boxing champion Rocky Marciano was asked if he had any regrets about his boxing career. Marciano said "Yeah, I regret that I never had the chance to fight Bigfoot. I always wanted to lay a right hook across that bastard's ugly face." When the questioner said that Bigfoot was imaginary, Marciano glared at him, muttered something about "stealing our women" and walked away. He died before anyone could ask him about it again.

The Shreveport Louisiana Police Department has recently issued all of their officers with paintball guns. The intention is that if a police officer sees a traffic violation occurring while already issuing a ticket they can just "tag" the newly-noticed offender with a paintball and then track them down later. There have been both advantages and disadvantages in practice. One advantage is that cars shot with paintball guns often pull over immediately to try and find the culprit. This makes the officer's job much easier, especially since the driver of the tagged car often heads right to the officer to make a complaint. The major disadvantage is that on at least two occasions the police officer used the wrong gun and actually shot the car.

In 1459, the English community of Stang Foot made the decision that they could not accept a local lord that they did not respect and so passed a local law that the local lord had to accept a "blow to the nose from the stoutest man in the county" on his 18th birthday. This tradition lasted until 1876. The results can be seen in family portraits. The local male aristocracy is often depicted with a smashed and malformed nose.

Multiple studies have shown that Iowa is the state that Americans are most likely to forget if they are asked to name as many states as possible. Although there are a number of suggestions as to why this is, ranging from shape of the state to the simplicity of the name, the suggestion that carried the most weight with study respondents is simply that Iowa is too boring to both remembering.

46% of iPod owners feel that people who don't own iPods "just aren't very intelligent".

Singer Rick James actively tried to become infected with genital warts because he thought that have warts on his genitals would increase the pleasure of his sexual partners. He said "It's all for the ladies."

Inventor Nikola Tesla was well known for his amazing powers of visualization. He was able to visual his inventions completely, in 3-D, in his head. A less well-known aspect of this ability was that sometimes he would get a song stuck in his head. His mental abilities would magnify the song until it was all that he could hear or concentrate on. On the occasions that this happened he would have to be sedated until the episode passed. His friends would know that the song left his head when his hand would stop moving in rhythm to the internal beat. He was especially susceptible to Cole Porter songs, and once had "I Get a Kick Out of You" stuck in his head for 13 days. He hated Cole Porter and spent long hours at the end of his life designing devices that would kill Cole Porter from great distances.