45% of IT professionals in the United States believe that computers are very likely to be subject to malign supernatural forces.

Human placenta is the seventh-most popular cooking meat in the world.

Actress Eva Longoria has spent the last two years in an attempt to buy every copy of her high school year book so that she can more easily lie about her age. She has succeeded in buying all but five. Three of the remaining books belong to members of the class reunion committee, one belongs to a former classmate in prison, and one belongs to the first person she ever had sex with.

There is more human breast milk produced each day on the Earth than there is cow milk.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a yoga enthusiast, practicing at least 1 hour of bikram yoga each day. He started it because he read that it would give him a "great butt". He is now working towards being able to crack walnuts with his butt muscles, but he has only been able to work up to pecans so far.

Actor Donald Sutherland is terrified of spontaneous human combustion. He always wears flame retardant clothing and has a fire extinguisher in every room of his house, and requires that all his children have a fire extinguisher in every room of their houses as well. His son, Keifer Sutherland, remembers being taught how to stop, drop, and roll before his second birthday, and that his father still requires him to perform this drill whenever he hears two sharps whistles.

King Edward VII of England had erotic photographic calling cards of himself made up so that he could given them to young women that he hoped to take as mistresses. These cards are unbelievably rare as almost all were destroyed by court officials after he became king in 1901. There is known to be at least one in the British Museum's sealed stacks, and there are rumors of one held by the descendents of Alice Keppel, one of the king's last mistresses. Rumor has it that the Keppel copy has both tear stains and lipstick on it. It is claimed that Edward had the Prince Albert modification of his genitalia, but that is a matter of dispute as some claim that it is just a scratch on the photo plate.

There are more incidents of cannibalism in Antarctica than any other continent. The incidents are rarely reported due to the international profile of many of the researchers posted there. A distrubingly large segment of these incidents are self-cannibalization, in which someone eats one of their own fingers in isolation-induced delirium.

Putting superballs in the tires of a car will increase its gas mileage by up to 5 miles per gallon. Unfortunately, due to sympathetic vibrations set up by the balls, there is a 5% chance that one of the tires will explode.

Senator Arlen Spector loves to play poker, but doesn't play for money believing it to be immoral. He plays for animals. Each of his chips represents a different small animal and he scrupulously honors all of his bets. People at one of his games must buy in for at least 10 kittens. Smaller chips equal frogs and crickets respectively. At the end of the night players must deal with the animals that they have won. One of his staffers once had to somehow deal with a box of 890 crickets.

During training sessions, golfer Tiger Woods puts live ants in his left ear and seals them in with earplugs. This is done as an aide to concentration. Woods feels that he needs to be able to filter out all distractions and concentrate solely on the ball. His hearing on the left side is significantly worse than on the right.

Actor/writer/blogger Wil Wheaton has played so much of the video game Guitar Hero that he has damaged his fingertips to the point that he can't be fingerprinted.

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal spends a total of two hours a day hanging upside down in an effort to increase his hat size.

According to the notes of James Madison, at the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin lobbied hard for an Amendment that would allow bigamy.

Mel Gibson never flushes a public toilet after he uses it. Publically, he claims that it is to save water, but privately, he admits that he just doesn't care about what the next bathroom user might see.

As a result of many years in character, puppeteer Frank Oz can only speak using Miss Piggy's voice.

Due to an unfortunate incident in 1923, ever potential date for a male member of the British Royal family must be inspected by a female staff person.

Despite their small size, chihuahuas account for 20% of deadly dog attacks in Mexico. In the United States there has never been a documented case of fatal chihuahua attack.

A random sampling of water from the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States indicates that, on average, the water contains traces of sperm from over 340 different animals, including (but no limited to) fish, cats, dogs, raccoons and squirrels.

The state border between Oregon and Washington has been a mattter of legal dispute for over 75 years. All official maps still have the legend "Border in Dispute".

John McLaughlin has claimed for many years that he can pick up a full-grown cow. No one has ever seen him do it.

Under extreme duress, the Malaysian firefly can produce a flare that it 2X brighter than the sun. The flash lasts only .1 seconds and the firely dies within 12 hours of producing it. After the flash, the firefly's entire metabolism is shifted to mating. Under these conditions, it will attempt to mate with any insect it finds, regardless of species.

According to New York state law, it is legal to hit someone in the face with produce up to 3 pounds if you are in a concert hall that holds more than 100 people. Outside of these areas, it is a Class C felony punishable by 4 years in prison.

Roger Clemens has four kids whose names all begin with the letter "K". But instead of their given names, he calls them Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde after the ghosts in Pac-Man.

More divorces are initiated on February 15th in the United States than on any other day.

Sony Electronics spends 15% of its annual R&D budget on ways to introduce audiovisual content directly into the neural pathways of humans, thus bypassing the need for speakers and screens. They are very tight-lipped about their success.

The fate of Luxembourg has been decided by a single hand of poker on more than one occasion.

Whoopee cushions are "strictly forbidden" on the floor of the U.S. Senate, while they are only "strongly discouraged" on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Giraffes have to get a running start to have sex.

Fidel Castro eats over 10 lbs. of fudge every week. He has instructed his cook to include Ex-Lax in the fudge one week a year, as a way to remind him to be humble.

Princeton University automatically rejects applicants with tattoos if the tattoos are visible during the applicant's interview and the tattoos are not part of a coming-of-age ceremony.

Traditionally, the play Macbeth has always been considered an unlucky play to be in, but statistically, Hamlet has had a far higher rate of murder, suicide and accidental death associated with its performances.

In China it is illegal to name your child "Yoda". Not because of its meaning (it translates to "Vainglorious Turtle") but because the Jedi philosophy has been declared "antithetical to the teachings of the Communist Party".

The earliest condoms were made in China from the necks of swans. Only the Emperor was allowed to use them.

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.

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.