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.

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.