The Bulgarian Secret Service once created a laxative so powerful that it would cause the people who took it to shit themselves to death.

Defenestration (being thrown from a window) is the official method of execution in the Czech Republic.

Waffles are the oldest known breakfast food in the world. There are clear images of waffles on Egyptian tomb walls from 2143 B.C.

Jennifer Anniston's greatest fear is having an ugly baby.

During the Cold War, the CIA put in to operations a number of psychological operations in the former Soviet Union. One of the more bizarre ones involved the introduction of hundreds of thousands of small, brightly colored sea slugs into the Leningrad watersupply. It is unclear exactly what they wished to accomplish, but best guesses are confusion and fear. Unfortunately, the Russians found them delicious.

Although cats and dogs are by far the most popular pets in the United States, there are numerous less-known pet fancier groups, including ones for slugs, badgers, crabs, storks, tarsiers, and ticks. The last is the smallest pet group with its own annual meeting.

Dr. Phil McGraw has deliberately infected himself more than once with tapeworms in an effort to lose weight.

Henry Kissinger's favorite movie charater is Ratso Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy. He often walks across the street against the light so that he can say "I'm walking here!"

Malaysia was the surprise winner of a survey of the "Politest Country" in the world, beating out the favorite Japan. Kazakhstan was voted the least polite county in the world.

Evolutionary biologists think that computer keyboards will cause people with polydactyly (more than 10 fingers) to gain a long-term reproductive advantage.

William Shatner is working hard to start the ESP Cable Channel. It would provide a wide variety of original programming and movies, all in Esperanto.

People magazine almost named Osama Bin Laden as 2000's Sexiest Man Alive.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck broke up after she drugged him and painted his left testicle blue in order to demonstrate how easy it would be for her to remove one in case he ever cheated on her. He moved out the next day and broke up by phone.

In every movie since "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" Johnny Depp has played a female extra in addition to his starring role.

A number of judges have started experimenting with Botox injections in the buttocks. The injection numbs the butt for a long time and makes it much easier to sit through a long oral argument without shifting. On the negative side, it makes defecation a difficult and often extremely messy endeavour.

Russian torturers of Czar Nicholas II discovered that you can kill someone by changing their sleep cycles. It is now known as "extreme Circadian derangement". ECD is thought to be the reason for 5 college student deaths a year in the United States.

The NIH has conducted a study which indicates that there is a surprisingly strong statistical correlation between first name and schizophrenia. Although the list is classified to prevent abuse and discrimination, it is rumored that the name Jennifer is considered an unusually high risk for a violent schizophrenic break.

25% of residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands can't tell you what day of the week it is.

Eliza Dushku will not do a nude scene because she has a large, rather embarassing tattoo on her right hip.

Singer Jewel's favorite pair of glasses have frames fashioned from the penis bones (baculums) of raccoons. She says that they make her feel "extra smart and a little more groovy".

Police have long noticed that the building of a new Wal-Mart increased illegal drug activity in the general area. This was long assumed to be due to the influx of people and money around the store. But a new study indicates that the advanced inventory control skills that Wal-Mart teaches its employees is the primary reason for the increased activity. Local drug dealers who have jobs with Wal-Mart gain vital logistical and organizational skills that they copy and apply directly to their own illegal activities.

One of the more radical ideas from the Green Party leadership is the idea to completely shut off large areas of South Dakota as an environmental recharge zone. They defend the idea by noting that environmental conditions have been gravely affected by decades of ranching, and they also point out that no one really wants to go to South Dakota. In 2003, there were 98 days in which not one person entered the state.

John Stamos is a 10th Degree Black Belt in Aikido, but he has only ever competed against midgets.