Elephants can't pick their noses, but occasionally they are observed picking other elephants' noses.

Comedienne Carol Burnett once got so stoned on psychedelic mushrooms that for three days she thought she was a howler monkey and threw her shit at anyone who tried to get close to her.

Las Vegas casinos are experimenting with blackjack tables that release a fine mist of alcohol from a large tank in the floor. The mist is intended to slowly get players drunk so that they play more recklessly. The dealer at the table is surrounded by a "curtain" of blown air that keeps the mist at bay.

Actor Guy Pearce's mother never believed that acting was a "proper profession". She demanded that Pearce have a fall-back career for when the "acting thing ran dry". To appease her he took a course in automotive repair. Oddly enough, he found out that he really liked it, and has opened a shop in Sydney, Pearce Putters, for times when he is not working on a movie.

Presidential Adviser Karl Rove is the long-standing president of the Farrah Fawcett Fan Club. He spends over 10 hours a week maintaining the club's website and he personally owns over 3,000 pieces of Fawcett-related memorabilia.

Despite his intelligence, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has a lot of trouble with multi-line phones. He lost his first-ever job because he was unable to successfully transfer calls. He has hung up on President Bush on more than one occasion because he pressed the wrong button.

An estimated $150 million is spent on industrial espionage within the zipper industry every year.

In Victorian England it was illegal to sell lampreys to unmarried women because their consumption was thought to promote lesbianism.

The old college fad of swallowing live goldfish began in 1918 when it was rumored to help stave off the deadly effects of the Spanish Flu. Practioners were led to believe that consumption of live fish would help supercharge their immune systems. Not only did it not work, but it also caused a rash of diseases attributed to fish parasites.

Baseball player Mickey Mantle once bet a teammate that he could hit 5 out of 10 batting practice pitches while blindfolded, if the baseballs used had been soaked in whiskey for 24 hours. He actually hit 7 out of 10, including one for a homerun.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro is passionately attached to the children's game Chutes and Ladders (He doesn't like the English version, Snakes and Ladders because he hates snakes). He plays the game obsessively, with the same endurance that is evident in his multi-hour speeches. In his younger days he was known to play the game for over 24 hours in a row. He says that the game is the perfect metaphor for life with its unexpected setbacks and advances.

Actor Paul Newman owns over 700 billion bees in hives around the country.

The earliest depiction of Satan in a Christian church shows a being that is strikingly similiar to a lobster. Not having a clear idea of what the Lord of Hell might look like, the artist apparently employed something that he personally found scary. Over time, the image gradually morphed into the currently familiar image of a red, horned man. There are images of Satan with gigantic claws that date as late as the 15th century A.D., and one statue of him from a 13th century Byzantine fresco that shows him with a big, flappy lobster tail.

According to Social Security Records, there are at least 52 people in the United States whose first name is Architeuthis, the genus name for the giant squid. It is unclear what the gender distribution of the name is, although it is apparently used as both a male and a female name.

There are 13 species of mammals (not including bats) and 49 species of reptiles that draw their nourishment solely from blood.

Japan uses more anti-bacterial disinfectant per year than any other five countries in the world put together.

The average cockroach is more than twice as clean as the average U.S. dollar bill.

Former U.S. Senator Johnathan Edwards is very proud of his oratorical skills. He once bet fellow Senator Olympia Dukakis of Maine that he could give a speech on the floor of the Senate with his mouth full of pebbles, matching the legendary training of the Greek orator Demosthenes. He gave the speech successfully, but was never paid off by Snowe. She claims that he bobbled the word "schizophrenia". The C-Span coverage of the day of that speech has been lost due to a malfunctioning tape player. The wager was for a dinner for two at Wendy's.

In Singapore it is illegal to build a robot spider for purposes of espionage or as a weapon of war, but all other purposes are legal.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy's last words consisted of an impassioned denunciation of his hospital bedpan for being a Communist.

Foley artists for porn movies often add sounds of animals mating in the background music as a way to heighten the erotic content. The animal most often used is the pangolin. Apparently, according to foley artists, the sounds from two pangolins mating can be quite arousing.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani never wears clothes with zippers. He once said (in reference to this policy) "It's the only thing that the goddamn Amish have ever gotten right." He has never further elaborated on that statement.