Despite the unpleasant work environment, sewage engineers have an average lifespan of 92, well above the national average.

One benefit of being in the secretive "Skull and Bones" Society is the ability to call "Kicks" on another member. When one member calls "Kicks" on another member, they gain the right to kick the second member in the groin without fear of reprisal, i.e. no immediate retaliatory call of "Kicks". John Kerry managed to call "Kicks" on George W. Bush after each one of their presidential debates.

William Henry Harrison's nickname in the Army was "Mr. Happy Pants" because of his extraordinary sexual appetites.

Jerry Seinfeld's most prized possession is a kielbasa sausage blessed by John Paul I during his short time as Pope.

80% of the population of Fiji is allergic to chocolate.

Every day enough pizza is sold in the United States to cover an area the size of Iowa.

Sylvester Stallone has instructed his agent to get him placed in commercials in every country on the planet. His goal is to be the most widely recognized person in the world. So far, he appears in commercials in 136 different countries, most recently in Mongolia and Djibouti.

California researchers are moving rapidly towards developing stitches made from cloned human tissues for use in major surgeries. The stitches are going to be grown ahead of time from tissue taken from the patient. The stitches will have several advantages, 1) there is no danger of rejection, 2) there is a lessened chance of infection, and 3) they would reduce scarring by growing directly into the tissue.

Neil Bush, George W. Bush's brother, hasn't been invited to a state function at the White House since 2001, when he told the Somali Ambassador to the U.S. that sunglasses were the greatest invention in history because "they let you stare at women's tits all day with no one being able to tell."

Actor David Arquette wears gloves filled with baby lotion when he is at home. He orginally put them on as a joke, saying "I need my hands to be soft enough to touch my wife." He got the idea from reading Of Mice and Men. His wife, actress Courtney Cox, thought the idea was stupid and wanted him to take them off, but when she found out how soft his hands were she decided that he had to keep them on. He has now been doing this for two years and admits that he is really tired of it.

Due to an extremely ugly syrup-based trade dispute, France has forbidden the importation of Canadian bacon.

Roger Clemens has an unusual superstition. Since the game in 1986 when he struck out 20 batters, he has taped a 1920 penny to his right buttock. In 1996 he again struck out 20 batters, and started taping another penny to his left buttock. He has only missed this ritual once. In June 2000, he left the pennies in his hotel room, so he paid a clubhouse trainer $1000 to draw pictures of the pennies on his butt. He only went 1 1/3 innings that day and gave up 7 runs.

A surprising number of Hollywood gossip columnists have backgrounds in entomology. E! Entertainment gossip maven Ted Casablanca was ABD in entomology at the University of Georgia before becoming a gossip columnist. He says that the study of insect social systems is actually quite a good primer for studying Hollywood celebrities. In each case, he says, there is only the barest comparison to normal human interaction.

Experts estimate that the game "Freecell" found on many Windows-based computers costs American businesses over $5 billion in lost productivity annually.

Microsoft fonder Bill Gates owns over 300 houses all across the United States. He has bought them quietly over the years so that he will have a place of his own to stay no matter where he goes. The houses were carefully selected so that no house is more than a three hour drive from the next house. All the houses are relatively small and unobtrusive. The only things that make the houses unusual is that each one has a top-of-the-line security system, a T-1 Internet connection, and an underground shelter with room for 25 people and food for a three year stay.

Singer Courtney Love suffers from allopecia and has lost all of the hair on her body. Any visible hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes, is artificial.

Fantasy sports related crime is up an astounding 75,000% since 1995. The FBI recently founded a department specifically to deal with the criminal activity having to do with fantasy sports. The FBI estimates that fantasy sports is responsible for over $100,000,000 worth of illegal gambling and has been directly responsible for crimes ranging from wire and mail fraud, to breaking and entering, to murder for hire.

Actor Ray Liotta keeps a flock of 10 miniature cows and 5 minature goats at his estate in the Hollywood Hills. Every Christmas he makes cheese by hand as gifts for his neighbors.

According to 2003 emergency room statistics, most gun shot victims are shot in the buttocks.

Almost every country on Earth has a species of octopus that is native to its waters. This includes land-locked countries. For many years, it was thought that Mongolia was bereft of the intelligent many-armed mollusk, but in 2002 researchers discovered a tiny 1 cm freshwater octopus living in Hovsgol Lake. It has been named Przewalkski's Octopus after an early naturalist working in the area. The only country in world with no native octopus species is Vatican City.

Almost every European country has a different expression intended to excuse swearing in polite company. In France, when someone swears they say "Pardon my Czech" and in Austria they say "A German must have invaded my mouth." Russia is the only country to specifically have a phrase condoning swearing. There is an old Russian proverb that says "A Russian knows how to do four things well: fight, fuck, drink and swear."

It is illegal to dress as a coyote, wolf, mountain lion, or bear for Halloween in certain counties of Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana. Legislators are afraid that locals might accidentally shoot children under the mistaken belief that they are attacking house pets and farms animals.