There are an estimated 1200 weddings a year that use Star Trek music as their soundtrack. William Shatner gets asked to perform over 700 weddings a year as Captain Kirk.

In the past year, the following items have fallen from a clear sky and killed someone: A bunch of carrots, a ferret, a 450 lb. sea turtle, a pair of nail clippers, 75 lbs. of bundled newspapers (the Santa Fe New Mexican back issues), a screwdriver and an Olypmic bronze medal from 1988.

Actress Jessica Alba only wears leather if she has killed the animal herself. She is an accomplished bow hunter and an excellent kosher butcher.

In 1843, over 85,000 people were eaten by tigers.

Eight of the last ten Tiddlywinks World Championships have ended in fistfights.

John Elway used to suffer from terrible insomnia after a football game. He found the only way to relax was to take a bag of footballs to a low-income area of Denver and walk around until someone tried to rob him. Then he would throw the footballs hard enough to disable the person. More than one person went to the emergency room with a broken nose, and several with broken ribs. Elway said that he always slept like a baby afterwards.

The smell of pineapple causes actor James Spader to urinate involuntarily. He doesn't know why, but as a result he has vowed never to go to Hawaii for any reason.

Although it is well known that a diet high in carrots can give your skin an orange tone, less well known is the fact that a diet high (>30/day) in kiwi fruit can give your skin a nice teal color.

There is a new company in Burbank, California called TapeVault. It is designed to be an absolutely safe repository for celebrities' sex tapes. The company takes care of the tape as soon as it is handed over. The tapes reside in a climate-controlled vault with retinal-imprint security cameras. The celebrity who deposits the tape can watch it on the premises, arrange for secure streaming video on their shielded home computer, or remove the tape (with guard convoy) to their homes for 24 hours at a time. In addition to storage the company can also provide a service where it will quietly leak the tape to an Internet site if the celebrity's career is slowing down. The company will also set up an untraceable web store so that the celebrity can make a profit on their tape. The company's vaults are currently full.

From the start of his second week on the show until he quit, John Tesh was drunk every single night while he anchored "Entertainment Tonight". Oddly, he wasn't an alcoholic. He only drank while in the studio and never, ever, outside of it. He says that he quit drinking completely and gave his notice to the network the day that he thought about taking a drink off the show. He says that the only reason that he drank is that otherwise he would have killed himself on air for "being involved in such an empty waste of time".

England's Prince Charles never shaves. He has each hair plucked out individually. Although this process is quite painful and takes a long time it only has to be performed once every two months.

The U.S. Army has developed a squirt gun powerful enough to shoot a stream of liquid through a human body from 20 feet away.

Brain scans of cats show that when they are awake they hallucinate an average of two times an hour.

Every day in the United States an estimated $12 million is accidentally thrown in the trash.

A Japanese company is working on a video game adaptation of the movie "The Sound of Music". It is a hybrid. It starts with a musical section teaching the Von Trapps to sing, then switches to a dating sim between Mr. Von Trapp and Sister Maria and finally turns into a first person shooter where you have to kill Nazis to escape from Austria. There is also supposedly a secret section that can be unlocked involving hard-care incest, but that is only intended for the Japanese market.

Robin Williams shaves his body completely, from head to toe, once a year. He hopes that this will encourage thicker hair growth so that one day he might be able to do without clothes.

When she was in college, actress Lisa Kudrow used to meet guys by "accidentally" hitting them in the face while she was walking and having an animated conversation with her girlfriends. She would then apologize and see if she could buy him a drink. She said that she knew a guy was a good catch if he could keep his cool after she had "socked him one in the snoot." She broke three noses her sophmore year.

The title of every album produced by Duran Duran has been subsequently used as the title of a Japanese gay porn movie. Aficionados say the the "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" movie is the best one.

Pierce Brosnan claims that the second worst day of his life was when he lost his fantasy football championship game in 2004.

Actress Selma Blair only eats things that are green. She carries around a bottle of green dye at all times so she can eat anything she wants.

Actor James Woods' first language was Mongolian. He had a Mongolian nanny when he was little. Unfortunately he has forgotten almost all of it, except "Jorlon haana baina ve?" or "Where is the toilet?"

Actor Hugh Laurie can imitate a dog's bark so well that it can fool other dogs. Sometimes when the phone rings and he doesn't want to talk he will knock the phone over and bark into the receiver until the person hangs up. If it turns out to someone that he knows he will later lie to them and tell them that his dog was the only living thing home and it hates for the phone to ring.

Bill Gates has administrator privileges on every computer at Microsoft. Sometimes he walks around at night and changes the desktop picture on peoples' computer to images of hardcore gay pornography.

Vice President Dick Cheney doesn't allow erasers to be used in his office. He says that erasers foster "defeatist and revisionist thinking".

Actor Richard Harris was legendary for his ability to swallow his own vomit so as to not ruin a take in a film. He generally had to do this about once a day due to his extremely hard drinking.

Under perfect circumstances a fart can be smelled at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower 4.5 seconds after it is produced at the top of the tower.

More drugs are sold out of Chrysler minivans than any other type of vehicle.

Russian Mafia sometimes hire former professional soccer players to kick the heads off people that they dislike.

The Empire State Building has a floor that can only be accessed using the stairs and a special key. It is between floors 34 and 35. If you count up from the bottom on the outside you can pick out the floor. All the windows of that floor on the north side are a deep blood red, but no one can see in.

One year Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, gave everyone he knew rubber chickens as Christmas presents. Those people he liked more got more chickens. Co-founder Dave Filo got 13 chickens. Porn star Jenna Jameson received 550 chickens.

Pope John XVI once had someone excommunicated for extreme flatulence during one of his sermons. He was later talked out of this course, but arranged for the farter to "accidentally" be trampled to death by a group of monkeys in the Roman streets.

The first words that Paul Newman ever said to Joanne Woodward were "Nice rack."

Some squirrels on the campus of the University of Texas have started making their nests out of Post-It notes that they steal from open office windows.

In Austria it is not illegal to kick a professed Nazi.

Oprah Winfrey is terrified of identity theft. She never uses a credit card. So she always carries a great deal of money. She never leaves the house without a minimum of $10,000.

There is a town in Iowa that hasn't had a crime committed for 112 years. The residents don't reveal this because they are afraid it will attract criminals who will see them as easy pickings.

Laurence Fishburne never, ever, uses a computer. In movies where he is seen to use a computer the effect is achieved through body doubles and wooden props.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has a normal body temperature of 89.8 degrees, at the very bottom of human variability. If he ever goes to the tropics water droplets form on his skin from condensation.

Flounders are the only fish that can vomit, and they do, frequently and copiously, when they are caught. Flounder boats are required to always dock far away from the other boats, preferably downwind.

The second most popular type of museum in the world, after art museums, is a museum devoted to human deformities. There is a museum of human oddities in every single country of the world, except the Vatican.

The first book printed in Samoa was a cookbook of recipes for human flesh.

Only 2.6% of all pencils made are used by people over the age of 12.

Actress Claire Danes has an entire wardrobe made from cat hair. She can't wear it however as she is deathly allergic to cats.

Actor Vin Diesel spends $450,000 a year on white mices to feed to his many snakes.

There are only three residents in the European country of San Marino that are not millionaires.

Meryl Streep never speaks between midnight and 7 p.m. in an effort to save her voice. During that time (if she is awake) she always carries a slate so that she can write messages to people.

More people live in caves now than at any other point in history. Current estimates suggest that over 25,000,000 people live in caves around the world.

According to the NYC Tourist Commission, people wearing a lot of green are three times more likely to get beaten and robbed in New York City.

When the trombone, then known as the sackbut, was introduced to England in the 15th century it was quickly banned for being too sexually suggestive.

Filmmaker George Romero has requested that when he dies, his head be cut off just to remove any outside chance that he might become a zombie.

Men fart 52% less often than women. But they almost always fart more loudly.

Hostess Twinkies were originally developed as a means of giving unpleasant medicines to mental patients.

Bruce Willis enters a medically induced coma for four days every month in an effort to maintain a fit weight and to have the chance to "get his head together".

In 1784, the Catholic Church officially recognized the existence of leprecauns.

As a young actor, Don Johnson once drank a half gallon of blue paint on a bet. He suffered no ill effects except his ass was blue for several weeks and he lost the damage deposit on his apartment when the landlord saw his toilet.

William Shatner is the world's seventh richest Canadian.

President William McKinley only wore one pair of shoes during his time in office. He made them himself and often said that it was the achivement that he was most proud of in his entire life.

In Italy, publicly denigrating a lover's sexual prowess is considered a hate crime.

The male Golden Lion Tamarin sometimes has a penis longer than its own leg, which makes mating difficult. Occasionally a mating pair requires the help of a third tamarin to help with insertion.

65% of Californians have an iPod. 27% of Californians have more than one iPod.

In extreme circumstances the Norway rat can live for three months just from eating dirt.

Cold showers cause more heart attacks than any other reason.

The percentage of computer users who use the Function keys at the top of the keyboard is less than .002%.

Every CIA agent is supposed to carry a paperclip at all times as a weapon of last resort.

Mogul Donald Trump has banned pefumes from his office place. He says it's because he is allergic, but actually he just really likes the smell of a human body covered in the sweat of fear.

Jack-in-the-Box restaurants are prohibited from appearing in Salt Lake City due to the "salacious implications" of the name.

David Hasselhoff is a billionaire thanks to being the executive producer of Baywatch.

The local human population spikes every time there is a seventeen year cicada cycle. Researchers think that it is due to people eating the insects and getting extra protein in their diets.

North Dakota doesn't have a state song. No one has ever bothered to write a song about the state.

George W. Bush has watched over 10,000 hours of SportsCenter on ESPN. This is over one year of television.

In private, Jessica Simpson has been heard to remark that she made through high school on "the size of my tits".

When the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis is fully filled the combined body heat of the spectators makes the surface of the dome hot enough to fry an egg.

Seven countries in the world have an official, national food dish that is based on insects.

Dame Judi Dench has 36 piercings.

Paris Hilton has at least 5 body doubles to fill in for her at events. All of them have had facial surgery and are required to maintain a strict diet. Supposedly Paris sometimes uses them to sleep with various men as a test run before she does.

More people are deathly allegeric to the kumquat than any other food item. An estimated 15,000 people die from anaphylactic shock related to kumquat allergy each year.

Ayatollah Khomeini suffered from priapism, a constantly erect penis. It was extremely uncomfortable and many believe it contributed to his legendarily stern demeanor. Even though he always wore long concealing robes, he commanded that all close-up pictures of him could only show him from the waist up.

39% of Americans have had sex while at work.

Director Woody Allen has often said that he wants to die while eating bacon.

An estimated 28% of professional hitmen are also mimes. Many speculate it is because a mime can be in a public place for a potential hit and then easily disappear by removing clothing and makeup. But one criminal psychologist posits that it is a natural overlap because both hitmen and mimes share a basic contempt for humanity and its conventions.

California leads the nation in the number of professional strippers who are multiple amputees.

Every country on Earth has its own variation on the burrito.

The most successful marriages (based on length of marriage) are between people whose feet are more than one inch different in length.

An estimated 1 in 450,000,000 people can lick their own eyeballs.

There are more babies born nine months after Arbor Day than any other holiday in the United States.

In Montana, horse theft is still a hanging offense.

Residents and visitors to Las Vegas consume over 50 tons of Alka-Seltzer daily.

The Chinese dish "Peking Duck" is only made from duck about 15% of the time.

New York City ordinances state that all professional dog walkers on the island of Manhattan must have at least three years of college education.

Actor Danny DeVito is a member of a mysterious organization dedicated to completely wiping out all species of crabs on the planet Earth.

The average U.S. cable TV viewers sees 7.9 episodes of Law and Order a month.

There are no albino aligators in the New York sewer system. There are, however, 25 pound African frogs. They are the largest frogs in the world.

Scientists studying animal biology say that the third most intelligent animal on the planet isn't the dog or the chimpanzee, but the naked-rumped tomb bat (Taphozous nudiventris). According to one researcher, the tomb bat makes a dog look like "it should be riding the short bus". Scientists would like to use the tomb bat in their studies, but it has proven impossible to raise in captivity.

Actor Vin Diesel has had all the hair surgically removed from his head so that he never has to shave it to maintain his "tough guy" look.

In England during the Middle Ages the gallon was a variable measure. It was defined as the amount of wine that the king could drink in one hour without "spewing forthe his gullet, or voiding his bladder". In practice it meant that once a year the king had to drink nothing but wine over one hour until he threw up. This was not the king's favorite royal duty. The measure varied widely from king to king. The biggest measure of a gallon was during the reign of Alfred the Great, when Alfred drank 10 tankards of wine during the hour. This translates to a modern measure of a gallon and a half. After this feat it was recorded that the king threw up for one minute and a half without stopping.

In rural China extreme cases of erectile dysfunction are treated with leeches. A leech is attached to the flaccid member for ten minutes. The leech's bite introduces an anticoagulant into the area which greatly increases blood flow. The increased blood flow makes it much easier to achieve an erection. There are three downsides, 1) the threat of disease, 2) a loss of sensation due to the mild anesthetic properites of the leech bite, and 3) the bite tends to bleed copiously for up to a day and a half, longer it the member in question is in heavy use. It is the last downside that tends to cause the most problems. It makes the actual act extremely messy and it sometimes causes lightheadedness when blood loss is added on top of the sensation of orgasm.

Approximately 1 in every 20,000,000 people can purr.

In the United States, more suicides happen on Thursday than any other day. Researchers believe that it is the realization that there is still one more work day in the week that drives the victims over the edge.

Only 7% of members of the Screen Actors' Guild over the age of 30 haven't had some form of cosmetic surgery. It is estimated that there is collectively over one ton of silicone amongst the female members.

In emergencies, ketchup makes an excellent antiseptic ointment.

The world's longest ingrown hair was 39 inches long when it was removed. It started on the patient's chin and worked its way down their neck, over their chest and around their back.

2.8% of singing telegram recipients end up having sex with the singer.

It is a felony to import more than 2 pounds of chocolate into Switzerland. The punishment is up to 10 years in prison.

The country of Andorra doesn't have any jails due to its small size. So anyone convicted of a crime in Andorra is sent to another country for imprisonment. The country the prisoner is sent to depends on the severity of the crime. For small crimes the prisoner is sent to neighboring France. For more serious crimes, the prisoner goes to Germany. For capital crimes, the prisoner is sent to an unnamed central Asian republic. Capital crime is very low in Andorra.

All Australian policemen have to be minimally competent in throwing a boomerang. They are tested every year.

Houses sell for an average of $15,000 less when they are painted red.

The male hippopotomus can have intercourse for 15 hours straight, during which time he ejaculates between 2-3 gallons of sperm.

An exhaustive analysis shows that 98% of all rock songs are about three things: love (in all its forms), drugs (in all their forms, including alcohol) and cars. The remaining 2% of songs are so varied in subject matter as to defy a short list, but some of the subjects include interstellar travel (both physical and mental), Jell-O, Jungian archetypes, socks, and catfish.

4% of the human race lacks that ability to taste. This percentage varies widely by country, from .001% of the Belgian population, to 2.5% of the U.S. population, to a world-high 14% of the population of Burkina Faso in West Africa.

Postal officials estimate that every day over two tons of fecal material is put in the mail for pranks.

Actor Zach Braff told a reporter in 2004, that "Although it is kind of shallow, my biggest fear in life right now is growing man boobs."

Every day of a 2nd degree sunburn shortens your lifespan by one week.

When not on set or in public, Woody Harrelson makes a crackling noise when he moves. One friend said that it sounds like he has "rice crispies glued to his skin." No one really knows what the noise is.

The amount of gold in computer circuits today exceeds the amount of gold used during the entire Roman Empire.

There is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills who will create a flesh pocket on arms for holding an iPod during exercise. He will make it so it fits all sizes including the Mini and the Shuffle.

William Shatner really enjoys farting, but is embarrased to do it in front of other people. As a way of disguising his activities he keeps a whoopee cushion under every chair in his house so he can pretend to be a practical joker instead of a farter. He also has five dogs that he blames for various smells.

There are more streets named for Genghis Khan in the United States than Abraham Lincoln.

Over 200 soldiers were eaten by polar bears during WWII, primarily Russians and Germans.

37% of Americans experience "moderate to severe" anxiety about their nose hair.

1 out of every 7 pennies in the United States is counterfeit.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner sings karaoke at least one night every week and more often two. He is partial to Elvis and Neil Diamond. He is absolutely awful. He goes because he enjoys making people uncomfortable.

In 2004, celebrities spent over $5 billion for lawyers to protect them against scurrilous Internet rumors. Tom Cruise alone spent over $2 million on one lawyer whose only job was to squash rumors that Cruise is gay.

Every city in the United States founded before 1940 has a law against blasphemy on its books. People were hanged for blasphemy as late as the 1840s in upstate New York.

Former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris is a big fan of Playboy. In a 2003 interview, she said that she always dreamed of posing for the magazine, and offered to do it for $50,000.

Due to extraordinary differences in diet, (in both quantity and quality) the 155,000 person American military presence in Iraq produces almost as much fecal waste as the 24.5 million Iraqi citizens.

Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera in 1894. He filmed the world's first harcore porn movie "Lucinda's Shameful Secret" the following year. This 90-second fragment of film is the most valuable piece of porn in existance. There is only one copy. In 1998, the last time it was sold, it fetched $23 million from a Japanese bread mogul.

The Northern Short-tailed shrew has the strongest bite in the Animal Kingdom. It can bite through a sapphire.

Sharon Stone is a highly proficient knife thrower. She uses her skills as a negotiating tactic. While talking to stuido executives she casually tosses knives at a target on the wall next to their heads. One executives turned the tables on her by waiting until she threw a knife and then drawing a gun and emptying it into a target that he had placed on the wall behind Ms. Stone. She found the episode hilarious and laughed so hard that she had to be sedated for respiratory distress.

Jennifer Lopez has the phrase "Let Copulation Thrive!" tattooed on her back in invisible ink that is only visible under a black light.

Actor John Gielgud was stolen by gypsies from his home at the age of 3. It took his family 4 years of searching to get him back. The experience left him with a profound ambivalence towards the English aristocracy, a smattering of Romany, and a lifelong habit of casual pickpocketing.

Oregon police estimate that as much as 15% of backyards in Oregon are used for growing marijuana. They further estimate that at least half of those people don't realize they are growing pot as the plants are left over from a previous tenant.

Abraham Lincoln was an extremely poor debater early in his political career. It was not until 1857, just a year prior to his famous series of debates with Douglas, that he came into his own. During a debate Lincoln was so incensed at his opponent's habit of eating during his rebuttal that he finally shouted "Shut your blasted piehole!" The opponent was so startled that he choked on his bite and was unable to finish the debate. Lincoln saw this as the single turning point of his political career, and made a point of eating pie every dinner for the rest of his life.

Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman knows that he is of such little importance to the Bush government that he often listens to his iPod for entire Cabinet meetings.

Actor Treat Williams has spent every summer since 1985 herding goats in Turkey's Kackar Mountains. He speaks fluent Turkish and is passable in Armenian.

1998 was a bumper year for potato worms. These two-inch long worms were so numerous on the nation's potato crop that potato industry executives estimate that one out of every 20 french fries sold that year was in fact a deep-fried potato worm.

President Teddy Roosevelt had extraordinarily strong teeth and jaws. He was able to bite through a wooden stick one and a half inches in diameter. His famous saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick" actually referred to the stick that he carried at all times during his life to exercise his bulging jaw muscles.

Prince Harry of England has asked that the Royal College of Heraldry create a new coat of arms for him. He has asked that it contain, in his words, "The 'Bird' in Gold, above a field of crushed cigarettes". His father was not pleased.

Since 2000, The Department of Defense has spent over $25 million towards developing a prototype light saber. No one will confirm who initiated the project, but hints are that the orders came from the top.

In 2003 an anonymous rider attached to the main state education bill made crack cocaine the Official Narcotic of the Great State of New Jersey. No one read or noticed the rider until after the bill was successfully made into law.

The world's first automatic door was installed in a New York City stip club in 1916. It was installed to show how welcoming and friendly the establishment was, and that anyone could come in and enjoy the show.

In 2004, there were 6 cases of road rage that involved a bow and arrow instead of a gun.

Raccoons have been observed tying at least four different types of knots in pieces of string. They seem to tie knots for the sheer fun of it.

Babies born in Vatican City (Note: this is, of course, limited to tourist who misjudge their due date. Although the numbers are small there have been enough over the years for a valid sample size.) are an average of 6 inches taller than babies of the mothers' native country. In addition to this unusual height advantage, every baby born in Vatican City is personally blessed by the Pope. No one is sure what is the cause of the height gain, but some researchers suggest that religious ecstasy may trigger horomonal changes in the mother's bloodstream that increase the babies' growth rate. This is all extremely speculative, because no Vatican mother has every allowed themselves or their child to be examined by scientists.

The Ancient Romans were the first people to invent a carbonated non-alcoholic drink. It was called Agricola's drink, after its inventor Gnaeus Julius Agricola. That was eventually shortened to Agricola and then just cola. Although the recipe of the Roman drink has been lost to time, the name cola was revived with the invention of soft drinks in the late 19th century.

More money is bet on bocce games, per player, than any other sport.

78% of fur coats produced outside of the United States are made with cat hair.

The mule deer can expel its feces at over 60 miles an hour. They use this ability to drive away predators. They can stun a bobcat for a few seconds with a high speed fecal pellet barrage and use that time to escape.

Woody Harrelson had marijuana centerpieces on the tables of all his wedding guests.

Actor Mark Hamill has no body hair at all. He was stricken with Allopecia in 2002. When he makes personal appearances now all his hair is a wig.

For a brief period in early 1971, Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman, fired his butler Alfred for getting high.

The fastest-growing political party in the United States is the Anarchist Party.

The ancient Aztec worshipped the avocado as the material bounty of one of their gods, Aguacototl. Early Catholic priests used guacamole and tortilla instead of wine and communion wafers in an attempt to blend local custom with Catholic belief.

The average Illinois resident eats the equivalent of a cow's worth of beef every year.

George Clooney has multiple tissue and blood samples in various secure locations so that when cloning technology advances he can have new body parts cloned.

One cup of dry dog food has twice the nutritional value of a Big Mac and three times the fiber.

96% of the world's population has never driven a motorized vehicle.

3% of weddings in the United States occur in animal shelters. In almost all of those weddings the participants' pets were involved as ringbearers.

87% of teenage girls have at least two pounds of hair in their stomach by the time they are 18 from absent-mindedly sucking on the ends of their hair.

Despite the fact that there is no firm evidence for its existence, every major casino in Las Vegas has people trained to look for evidence of telekinesis, or the power to move objects with one's mind.

79% of Americans name at least one of their body parts.

Peter Jennings was born without kneecaps. He has to use special braces to allow him to walk.

Charles Dickens never liked Christmas and, in fact, based the character of Ebenezer Scrooge on himself.

During the summer shooting hiatus from Smallville, actor Tom Welling runs a commercial fishing boat of the coast of Massachusetts called the Roughrider.

Studies show that sociopathic tendencies are 5 times more likely to occur in identical twins, given some credence to the preponderance of evil twins on soap operas.

The following substances can be hallucenogenic if taken in the correct dosage and in the correct manner: shark (orally), lettuce (suppository), oats (sublingually), Vitamin E (injected), milk (orally), pecan bark (inhaled), and ground turnips (smoked).

Richard Dreyfuss was a Gold Gloves champion boxer in his youth. He was especially known for his one-punch knockouts.

The average U.S. girl eats 50 pounds of hair by age 21.

Every day in the United States, computer users spend 5.6 man-years playing Freecell.

When Richard Nixon died he was buried, at his personal request, with a troll doll given to him by Mao Tse Tung. Nixon's request caused a great deal of discussion as to whether the doll constituted an offical state gift and therefore could not be legally interred with him. The White House Office of Protocol eventually decided that it was a personal gift and could be buried with him.

Every cartoon strip of Garfield has a subliminal obscenity in it.

Newt Gingrich never misses an episode of the supernatural soap opera "Passions". Since leaving the U.S. House of Representatives he has written the producers more than once, each time asking for a lesbian vampire storyline.

A hairbrush is the third-most common murder weapon in the United States, after gun and knife.

There are no dog owners in Missouri. Dogs are considered so important to the local hunting community that a bill was passed saying that all registered dogs are permanently leased from the State, and the lease can be revoked in time of need.

On averarge, a resident of Arizona has been gored by a bull at least once in their life.

The second most common animal phobia, after spiders, is a fear of snails.

Tofu reduces the brain's ability to recognize and remember smells. Long-term tofu eaters are continually surprised how bad it smells when they defecate.

Dolph Lundgren uses an unusual animal to guard his valuable items. He maintains a collection of 100,000 fleas that he releases into his personal vault. When he wants to get into the vault he opens small doors with blood containers behind them to lure the fleas out of the way. He considered infecting the fleas with some disease, but found that he would fall afoul of Homeland Security regulations if he did. As it is he has to register his home as a biohazard facility. And he has to maintain a constant blood supply to feed the fleas.

One stick of Burt's Beeswax Lip Balm can cover an area the size of Vermont. This translates to 75,000,000 lips. Unfortunately, 98% of people either lose their stick or send it through the wash within 2 days of purchase.

Fellatio is listed as the official cause of traffic accidents about 500 times a year in the United States. In Italy, it is listed as official cause of about 6000 traffic accidents a year. Interviews with police suggest that the actual rates of accidents due to fellatio are really much the same, Italians are just much more willing to admit it.

The kinetic energy released from a baseball hitting a bat is equal to half a stick of dynamite.

All the elvators in U.S. Capital building play Muzak versions of Leonard Cohen music on an infinite loop.

At any one moment in the world, there are more people under the influence of drugs and alcohol than there are sober.

Colin Farrell has to wear custom-made socks, but no one really knows why. He takes great care in making sure that his feet are never uncovered. And he makes sure that all the people who sleep with him and actually see his feet sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Snoring causes more divorces in the United States than any other factor.

Grizzly bear scat (feces) is surprisingly tasty and nutrious due to the bear's inefficient digestive system and its diet of berries. Native Americans and early European settlers in North America used to collect and dry the scat for use as an emergency foodstuff during long winters. An extreme sports company in British Columbia is now test-marketing a new energy bar called a "Scat Patty". Their motto: When that hike is a real "bear" and you really need to "scat".

45% of the dog collars sold in the United States are bought for humans.

The average cell phone of today has 10 times as much processing power as the average cow brain.

There are 35 times more free AOL CDs than there are humans on the planet Earth.

There are an estimated 250,000 eunuchs in America today. But they don't like the term "eunuch", they prefer "Serene American" or, in some cases, castrati.

The most expensive cheese in the world is made from the milk of the Screaming Hairy Armadillo, Chaetophractus vellerosus. It costs $200 an ounce and is vaguely pink in color. People who have tried it say it tastes like grasses in the sun, with a mildly tangy aftertaste. The aftertaste is attributed to the armadillo's diet of ants.

The average American throws up 23 times a year.

19% of Americans under the age of 40 believe that James T. Kirk was the first man on the Moon.

There has been a long-running debate about why asparagus makes urine smell different. A recent study indicates that asparagus doesn't change anything about urine but releases a psychoactive chemical that makes you think that your urine smells odd.

Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer, but Walt Disney was convinced differently. Walt considered alternate name for Donald Duck, including Deranged, Dolorous and simply, Dumb Duck.

Only 27% of Nyquil is bought to help people with cold symptoms. The rest is bought by people trying to get high.

Since the advent of Viagra, barring physical inability, people in their 70s are having sex twice as much as people in their 40s.

Despite the stereotype of the "Mother" tattoo, the most common tattoo in the world is a naked woman with a dragon.

The total weight of rats in New York City is more than the total weight of humans in the city, and cockroaches outweight rats and humans put together.

There are over 500 private apartments under Washington, D.C. built in case of nuclear war.

As a young priest in Poland, Pope John Paul II had a rather earthy sense of humor. He used to take great delight in farting during Confessions. As he moved up in the ranks of the church he toned down this tendency, but his first words after being selected Pope were "I thank God for this honor and will humbly do his work. Pull my finger."

Peter Jennings often does the nightly news with a jelly bean up one nostril. He changes the nostril every other day.

Bill Gates keeps a box full of shrews by his bed at all times, even when in a hotel.

Americans react differently to different regional accents. One recent study showed that people consider a Southern accent a mark of lesser intelligence, despite the fact that more PhDs live in the South than anywhere else in the country. The same study also showed that a working class Boston accent excited a surprisingly visceral negative reaction. More than one respondant to the study said that they would like to punch the Boston speaker's "smug face".

Many stars have dream projects that they want to film. Helen Hunt's dream is to make shoot a bio of Millard Fillmore. She says that he is "unusually sexy for a President". She also admits that she dreams of him at least once a month.

Due to a lack of health enforcement, some falafel sold on New York streets is made up of 30% insect parts. Some of the hot dogs sold on the streets contain 75% pig anuses.

Some athletes that want a physical edge, but not a lot of extra mass, have begun experimenting with growth hormones from animals that are smaller than human. Mouse and marmoset growth hormones are the most popular so far. Their effect on the human body is still uncertain, but there are some shortstops who swear that the marmoset hormones have made them more alert and able to catch very hard hit balls. On the downside, they have become extremely paranoid and have started jumping to safety at any unexpected noise.

Ted Koppel ordered a very unusual set of silver and china for his 30th wedding anniversary. The plates were all decorated with graphic erotic scenes involving satyrs and nymphs taken directly from ancient Roman pottery. The handles of the silverware are made up of intertwined male and female figures. The Koppels only use this silverware/china set on very special occasions. No one who has ever been to one of these occasions will ever talk about it.

Madonna has installed a large bank of flashing strobes outside her London home. These strobes go off when she exits the house to ruin the pictures of any paparzzi who are lurking outside. They have triggered epileptic attacks in several of the photographers.

Actor Tom Bosley writes a sex column for a weekly Chicago newspaper under the name of "Howard Bones".

Nicky Hilton has been granted a U.S. patent for a new and innovative automotive hydraulic suspension system.

Hugh Grant once smoked 20 pounds of marijuana in one month. Although his memory is understandably a bit hazy from that time, he estimates that he travelled over 3000 miles on British public transportation, based on receipts and tickets that he found in his pockets when he finally ran out of weed.

The world's loudest animal is the tiny star-nosed mole. It can scream at an astonishing 300 decibels, but only when it is attacked. Since it lives almost its entire life underground these screams are almost never heard. But occasionally they come to the surface and are attacked by a predator or found by a human. In 2000, a 63-year old woman found a mole in apparent distress and attempted to help, but when she picked it up it screamed so loud that she burst an eardrum.

95% of Russians believe in elves.

According to brain scans performed during the act, the orgasmic reflex in cows is 10x the orgasmic reflex in humans.

Martin Sheen wears the same Halloween costume every year: a perfect Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan outfit from M*A*S*H.

James Woods only wears leather that is made from frogs.

Samuel L. Jackson is fluent in Klingon.

Donald Trump cries every time he fires someone on his show The Apprentice.

Football commentator John Madden worships a god he saw during a heart attack and near-death experience brought about by his pathological fear of flying. Almost nothing is known about his vision of God. The only thing that is known is that he has one ton of incense delivered to his house every month.

"Shit" is the third most commonly spoken word in the English language, right after "No" and "The".

Procter and Gamble spends over $10 million dollars a year on corporate espionage just to keep their Crest toothpaste in a dominant position in the market. In addition they have "disappeared" several spies from rival toothpaste makers. Tom of Tom's of Maine, has vowed to see the head of P&G corporate security lying at his feet.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has an intestinal condition that makes his farts especially pungent. The smell of these eruptions is of such power that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had to leave a G-7 photo shoot to vomit. None of the heads of the G-7 countries want to sit next to Schroeder at summit meetings.

Chicken pot pies are banned in Iran by religious edict.

Senator Orrin Hatch's extensive collection of action figures is the envy of a number of people on Capitol Hill. The Capitol Police have been called to his office for attempted break-ins more than 150 times.

Danish teens have developed a new and unusual way to take drugs. They have started dipping hedgehogs in liquid LSD and then throwing them at each other. The LSD on the needles penetrates the skin and the pain from the impact of a hedgehog is supposed to heighten the experience.

Queen Victoria personally kicked into unconsciousness at least 15 newspaper reporters that she felt had defamed the British royal family.

Despite his Green affiliation, Ralph Nader is the single largest individual consumer of Hostess Twinkees in the entire world. He often eats over 75 a day. One day he ate over 250.

In 1811, the United States Congress created the position of Fool of the United States. The Fool was supposed to be "in dress, somber and modest, but in speech truthful and sharp." The Fool was intended to stay with the President at all times and keep him modest by pointing out his flaws. It was not always an smooth relationship. Andrew Jackson wrote in his journal "While the Fool's perfect imitations of Calhoun set the table to roaring, I am becoming d----d tired of his japes about my treatment of the Cherokee. Would that we were still in the Army, I would have the b-----d thrashed!" The Office of the Fool continued until 1846 when the Fool was shot by George Dallas, Vice-President to James K. Polk, for his jokes about the Mexican-American War. The matter was quickly hushed up by the Secret Service and the Office of the Fool has remained vacant ever since.

20% of Britons cannot identify dental floss, and 8% cannot identify a toothbrush. This has lead to the British Dental Association running a series of ads about Chipper, the Little Boy with Bad Teeth. They are surprisingly graphic with Chipper losing all his teeth, becoming homeless, and dying of infection due to unsanitary heroin injection.

Count Chocula was originally intended to be an actual blood-sucking vampire who gained his love of chocolate after drinking the blood of a diabetic. This was deemed to be too obscure. The second suggestion was the he discovered his love of chocolate after sucking the blood of a young child that had just eaten a candy bar. This was discarded as being too violent. Finally, it was just decided that he just liked chocolate in the first place.

Jerry Seinfeld has become extremely interested in high fashion following the end of his show. He talks frequently about starting a high fashion clothing business to produce his ideas. He is very serious about this, stating in late 2004 "Elegant fashion never goes out of style. The basic black dress maintains its importance. If I every hear anyone saying Such-and-such is the new black, I will immeditately punch them in the face." He has made good on his promise this year by already punching three fashion reporters who have used the statement.

The T.V. show Walker, Texas Ranger was aired originally only because the producer lost a poker bet. It was President Bush's favorite show. He reportedly cried at the end of the last episode.

Very few people know Gene Hackman by his college frat name "Volcano". He earned that moniker when he simultaneously expelled fluid from every bodily orifice after a particularly intense party.

None of the records in the first two years of the Guiness Book of World Records were checked. They were completely made up by staffers.

97% of American families have a hallucinogenic fungus or mold growing somewhere within their house. It is estimated that 35% of these families are affected one way or another by the hallucinogens.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is seriously considering eliminating a federal holiday in an effort to make U.S. industry more productive. The most common proposal is to eliminate Columbus Day, because it is already controversial. A competing proposal suggests adding a floating half day holiday that would fall the day after Halloween, if Halloween falls on between Sunday or Thursday. The rationale is that most people are hungover anyway, so a half day of rest would really improve their afternoon performance.

When viewed from above, the landscaping of the Playboy Mansion forms the outline of a very voluptuous woman. Local pilots use it as a landmark for guidance. They known that if they fly directly between the woman's legs they are heading directly for the Burbank Airport. Local flight controllers call it the Venus Flightpath.

The American Psychological Association is going to debate the existence of "email addiction" at the 2005 National Conference. There is widespread agreement that this exists and has extremely serious physical ramifications including stroke, osteoporosis, leprosy, and (according to some) early onset Alzhemier's. The main discussion point is to determine what are the definitions of the addiction. Some argue that people who check their email more than 75 times a day should be classified as addicted, while others argue that the classification should depend on how long one can go without checking email. One extreme case documented a man who never got more than 45 minutes of sleep at a time due to needing to check his email.

Walter Cronkite was a very good limbo dancer in his younger days. Although age has lessened his skills, he was once able to limbo under a two foot bar. Rumor has it that he originally learned to limbo to impress a girl that his family met on a trip to Jamaica in the late 1920s.

The song "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls was based on a true incident in Quebec in 1980.

A sheet of frozen human urine one inch thick can stop a .45 buller fired at close range.

Measured by rate of injuries, polo is the most dangerous sport in the world, with someone getting injured almost ever chukker. There have been over 300 deaths in the last 50 years.

Despite the fact that his life is the basis for one of the world's major religions, more books have been written about peanuts than about Jesus.

Moving is often listed as the second most stressful event in a person's life, right after the death of a spouse, but no one ever mentions that the third most stressful event in a person's life is tied between going to a new restaurant and getting your hair cut by a new barber.

Official cricket bats can be made from any wood, except Norfolk pine. Norfolk pine is excluded because the wood is considered to be unclean by Hindus. This rule was instituted in 1973 after a British/Indian test match turned into a bloody riot when the Indian National Team found that they had been using Norfolk pine bats. Although no one was killed, there were an exceptionally large number of broken bones because everyone had a cricket bat.

Tom Hanks keeps a sound-proof room in his house where he likes to go and scream obscenities.