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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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".

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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