During WWII, French Resistance fighters sometimes used frozen grapes as ammunition.

In 1897, the California Legislature passed a law requiring all residents of California to own at least one frog. This was to provide a last-line of defense in case of locust swarm. The frogs were intended to eat the locusts. The law was never enforced, but there was a short-term upswing in frog sales.

Actor Burt Reynolds really dislikes touching other people. He makes a point of only touching people with whom is planning on having sex with within then next 24 hours.

Avocadoes make mosquitos so drunk that they can't fly.

The flightless kiwi bird of New Zealand kills an average of one person a year with its beak.

Before 1940, Rolls Royce wouldn't sell a car to anyone who wasn't of "noble blood".

The longest one-word anagram in the English language is 78 letters long.

The model used for the Quaker Oats container was not actually a Quaker. He was, in fact, the first openly-practicing Wiccan in the state of Pennsylvania. He just had the right look for a "Quaker".

Former Senator Fred Thompson is extraordinarily sensitive to being regarded as a "country bumpkin". He once sued a 73-year-old woman for defamation when she quoted him as using the word "hootenanny". He won a $450,000 law suit and kicked her out of her home.

Delaware spends 15% of its state's budget annually on ways to help increase its citizens' self-esteem. Delaware's self-esteem has consistently rated at the bottom of all 50 states.

Actor George Takei of Star Trek fame has correctly predicted the final score of the Super Bowl for the last twenty years. He nevers bets saying that to do so would be "an insult to God".

Despite Texas' protestations of being like another country, the only state since the Civil War to put a secession measure on a state-wide ballot is Iowa.

Scientist estimate that a genetic therapy will exist in 10 years that will turn skin completely transparent on a temporary basis. They suggest that the two major uses for this are diagnosis and porn.

Every day there are more words written on Post-It notes than there were written on any medium during the entire 18th Century.

People whose names are also verbs (Chase, Pierce, etc.) live 7 years less than the average person.

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert watches the movie "Steel Magnolias" at least once a month. He says that it's "to stay in touch with my feminine side so that I can be a better legislator." He has never made it through the movie without crying, and he has fired three aides on the spot when they interrupted his watching.

Young actors have started the new fad of pork surfing in Los Angeles. It involves riding a butchered hog down the steep hills about Hollywood using the fat from the pig as a lubricant. So far no one has been injured too badly, but trichinosis has climbed alarmingly.

An international poll taken in 1998 revealed that 16% of the world's population thought that Michael Jordan was the President of the United States.

The number of high school students who believe that vampires are real spiked 4 years ago, when the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was at the height of its popularity. Since the show's end, 69% of high school students think that Sarah Michelle Gellar has somehow died.

1 person in 20 claims that they would kill a random victim if there were no chance they would ever get caught or blamed. That number climbs to 1 in 6 if the random victim is instead the person's boss.

The average American owns over 100,000 tons of goods during their lifetime.

There are 17 sex acts described in the Bible that would be illegal in all 50 states.