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.