Until she became the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice signed her name with a heart over the "i".

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch once directly his underlings to look into the possibility of hiring double leg amputees to deliver the evening news on the Fox Channel. He figured that they didn't need legs as a "talking head" and he could probably pay them less for the same job because they would "just be thankful to have a job." He was eventually talked out of the idea.

Vice President Dick Cheney can't smile for more than 5 seconds without suffering a massive headache. It has to do with a malformation of the muscles attached to his skull. Because of this he has to work very hard at not smiling. He has been known to punch stand-up comedians without warning or provocation.

Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller makes himself vomit once a day. He is not bulimic. He just likes to vomit.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has been offered $3,000,000 to endorse a line of mouthwash that comes packaged with its own set of disposable kneepads. It's called "One Night". So far she has refused.

Rumor has it that there is a Thursday night poker game amongst the Cardinals in the Vatican in which hundreds of thousands of dollars are regularly won or lost. There are even stories that the current Pope Benedict XVI won the papacy by calling in IOUs from the game.

Although they cannot digest them and get no nutrition from them, king cobras love the taste of strawberries. Unfortunately, after they eat them they are unable to expel them from their bodies through normal means. A researcher in Bangladesh discovered that the fermentation of the strawberries in the gut of the cobra produced an intensely powerful hallucinogen. That drug is now extremely popular in South East Asia, where it is known as Snake Bite and has reputed, although unproven, aphrodisiac effects. It is however the most expensive recreational drug on the planet, with one ounce costing $35,000.

Despite the stereotype of hard rock and the Devil fitting together, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey always claimed that he preferred Pat Boone and early Wayne Newton, because their voices put him in a more "worshipful frame of mind".

Actor George Clooney is a well-known prankster on movie sets. But one time his pranks backfired on him. He baked a number of cookies using rabbit droppings instead of chocolate chips. He brought them to the set of Ocean's Eleven and called them "vegan chocolate chip cookies". Actress Julia Roberts was warned about the cookies. She pretended to eat one and get sick and then hired a doctor to convince Clooney that she was suffering from tularemia or "rabbit fever". Clooney was so upset that he donated over $50,000 to the hospital she was being treated in before she let him in on the joke.

Although he is reportedly a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, talk show personality Bill O'Reilly refused to see the movie version of The Two Towers because it depicted suicide bombers. He felt that even though the bombers were orcs, the mere fact that suicide bombing was in the movie would serve to embolden terrorists.

North Korea has the world's strictest import policy. All clothing made of fibers that were not produced in North Korea are banned. The practical upshot is that customs officials routinely take clothes from visitors and then sell them on the black market.

The United States Secret Service equips all of their vehicles with grappling hooks that can be fired from the front grill, the brake lights, and each hubcap.

73% of college fraternity members fall into what would technically be considered an alcoholic coma at some point during their time at college. It is estimated that over $20 million a year is spent on payouts in an attempt to keep this fact out of the mainstream news.