Twice as much porn is produced in Luxembourg as in any other country in the world.

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration of the U.S. Government commissioned a sociological study of the sexual habits of the American public. The study was completed after three years, but was immediately declared Top Secret due to the surprising information. Although the study has never officially been released it is rumored that it was suppressed when government officials realized the true variety of sexual acts performed by the public. Officials were afraid that if the study was released, and people realized the various positions and practices detailed within, there would be a wave of hedonistic behaviour that would destroy society.

On March 19, 2003, the start date of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then-Undersecretary of State John Bolton drank so many Red Bulls in the excitement that he had to be sedated.

Railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt had a number of eccentricities to go along with his wealth. The only kind of meat that he would eat was gopher. One time his cook didn't have any gopher and substituted mole meat in a dish. After the meal was over Vanderbilt called the cook into the dining room and congratulated him on an excellent meal. The cook, thinking himself in the clear, bowed and thanked Vanderbilt for the praise. But when the cook retired to his room later he found that all of his belongings had been stacked on the front lawn and set on fire. He was handed a an envelope with $20 and a letter in Vanderbilt's own handwriting saying "Did you think that I don't know what a goddamn mole tastes like?"

Due to their extraordinarily high metabolism, the hummingbird farts more than any other creature known to man, more than 10 times a minute. Scientists theorize that the birds have learned how to use the farts as manuevering jets, but no one has been able to confirm this.

The U.S. Government keep statistics on all Federal employess who die on the job. In 2004, two employees were listed in the annual statistical compilation with a cause of death of "Crushed by Reptiles." All efforts to find out more details have been denied in the interests of national security.

In Detroit, it is legal to get high by sniffing permanent markers, but it is illegal to get a dog high using permanent markers.

The practice of throwing rotten fruit at bad performances began in ancient Rome. The Romans believed that fruit had souls and hitting the performers would curse them with the ghost of the rotten fruit. Aristophanes supposedly wrote an entire play about this called The Cucumbers, but it was lost in antiquity.

The annual expenditure on alcohol for the U.S. Capitol is classified. This has not always been the case. In 1999, the amount was disclosed to be $25 million a year. The person who made the disclosure was fired and the entire food and drink budget for the building was classified top secret.

When faced with two candidates of otherwise equal accomplishments and grades, Stanford University ALWAYS choses the one who is left handed.

Actor Ben Kingsley was born without a kneecap in his right leg. He needs to wear a brace at all times in order for his leg to bend the correct way. Sometimes he takes the brace off so that he can show off at parties, but that is very rare since once when he was drunk he accidentally kicked himself in the crotch.

The U.S. Secret Service keeps an investigative file on every President who dies while in office. The file for the investigation into John F. Kennedy's death comprises over 1500 linear feet of records and is sealed until 2050. The file for the investigation into Warren G. Harding's death in 1923 is over 4000 linear feet and is sealed until 2105.

When Elisha Otis developed the safety brake that enabled the development of modern elevators, he was bitterly denounced by religious conservatives as having created "an affront to God". God, the conservatives held, was "the only agency whereby a man might mount the Heavens without offense". Every building that had Otis elevators was picketed. This lasted for three weeks, until one of the protesters tried the elevator and realized that by taking the elevator he still had the breath to praise God when he got to the top of the building. This realization completely overturned the anti-elevator movement and for the next two years all elevators were full of the religious, singing hymns.

In addition to non-monetary perks, sewage workers around the world reap significant monetary rewards above and beyond their pay. In England, the average sewer worker generally makes over 10,000 pounds a year through salvage of lost money and artifacts in the sewer. And in Russia the sewage workers often use the tunnels as smuggling routes. In Moscow over 70 sewage workers own Ferraris.

In 1890 in New York City, one out of every six people was addicted to cocaine in one form or another.

In his last three movies actor Vince Vaughn has had himself digitally enhanced to appear fatter. That way, when people see him in real life they invariably comment how he looks much better in person than on film.

Poker Pro Phil Hellmuth can make his forehead sweat just by thinking about it. He uses it to make opponents think that he is nervous.

The U.S. Navy is the world's largest purchaser of Silly Putty. It buys over 20 tons annually.

Author John Grisham makes at least one new Spam-based dish for his family every week. His goal is to create a dish that will win the cooking contest at the annual Spamarama in Austin, Texas. He has entered the competition 5 times, placing 56th, 23rd, 4th, 77th (dead last) and 9th. He says that the day he placed last was the "3rd worst day" of his life. His family hates Spam.

The first pressing of the 1971 Pink Floyd album Meddle was rumored to contain an extremely high content of THC, the active chemical in marijuana. As a result, most of the albums were destroyed by fans trying to get an exceptional high. The albums remaining are some of the most valuable rock albums of all time.

The French martial art of foot fighting known as savate was originally invented so that the nobility could kill the peasants without getting their hands dirty.

24% of Americans have a name whose original meaning involved some sort of criminal activity.

Due to a couple of unfortunate incidents and complaints in the past two Congresses, every Senator is required to bathe at least once every 24 hours. Of course, filibusters are exempt from this rule.

Jerry Falwell's children have been brought up in such a strict manner that sufficient shame will render them unconscious.

The government of Burkina Faso has surreptiously sponsored counterfeiting of their own currency in an effort to get in the news and raise the country's international profile.

Every day in the United States over 4000 people attempt to deposit from the game Monopoly into their bank accounts under the mistaken impression that it is real currency. Astonishingly, over 100 of them succeed due to teller error.

The Yahoo corporate headquarters was deliberately built with airducts large enough to crawl through. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder, demanded that the airducts to be that large in case there was some sort of corporate attack. He had just seen Die Hard when they were talking about the building design.

At least three A-list movie stars are no longer scheduling work past 2009 because they believe that we live in the End Times foretold by the Bible.

Legislators have proposed a new law in Mongolia that only descendants of Genghis Khan can vote in national elections. This is not as exclusionary as it sounds at 96% of present-day Mongolians can trace their descent from the Great Khan.

According to the Russian Government, the date of July 12, 1964 doesn't exist. A clerical error caused that date to be skipped in the printing of official forms. Although it was a simple error, it wasn't caught until it was too late to change. As a result, no one in Russia has that birthday.

Psychologists studying the intelligence of pro athletes have determined that, overall, the stupidest pro athletes are golfers and (surprisingly) the most intelligent are pro surfers.

There is a new floral shop in New York called Schadenfreude's that specializes in deliviering bouquets to people you hate. They have a range of products starting with simple dead flowers, moving to beautiful bouquets with poison ivy accents, boquets with vases full of leeches and lastly boquets with marijuana accents that are accompanied by anonymous calls to the police. The store is staggeringly successful and they are planning on opening a Los Angeles branch in time for Christmas.

Although the newest genetic evidence undercuts his claim, Danny DeVito is adamant in believing that he has Homo Neanderthalensis DNA. He cites his extreme shagginess and thick torso. His wife just says that he is a furry fat guy.

Due to inadvertant, early-childhood conditioning, actor Paul Giamatti can only urinate when he hears the sounds of pigs grunting. He is forced to keep a recording of this sound with him at all times.

The new "must-have" item for Hollywood publicists is a quick-acting, mini tranquilizer gun. Publicists will often use them on misbehaving celebrities before they do something especially stupid. The quick collapse can then be blamed on "exhaustion" and the sleeping celebrity can be whisked off to some controlled environment. Unfortunately, some clients have proven very resistant to normal tranquilizers, and some have gone on rampages after the initial prick of the dart.

Most marine shrimp produce a chemical in their bodies that acts as a hallucinogen. Fortunately, this hallucinogen only affects shrimp. So shrimp have only the vaguest notion of what objective reality is like, that is why they swim around with such a jerky motion.

Although the flamingos of Lake Titicaca are rather slow and ungainly, they have developed an extremely effective defense mechanism. Using their long necks and curved beaks, they are able to hurl stones at predators with a great deal of force and surprising accuracy. Researchers have clocked stones hurled by the birds at over 60 miles per hour. Some people believe that the birds' abilities and beak shape led to the development of the cestus which is used to hurl the ball in the sport jai alai.

The artichoke is the vegetable most commonly used to murder someone. Second is corn. There are roughly 100 vegetable-related murders in the United States every year.

From the period 1860-1910, over 10% of U.S. Presidential siblings were forcibly committed to asylums, a rate far in excess of the general population.

57% of digital video recorder (DVR) users report a feeling of moral superiority with using the device. The general feeling is that watching TV shows time-shifted shows that they are not glued to the TV and have a more fulfilling life.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison always makes sure that he owns the largest and heaviest cell phone on the market. He finds that it is much more satisfying to throw at people when he is angry.

Actress Winona Ryder has a liver that is almost 2 times larger than normal. This is normal for her and has been the case since she was a child. There are plusses and minuses to this. On the plus side, having such a large liver makes it virtually impossible for her to get drunk. On the negative side, the liver is so large that it has crowded some of her other interal organs, specifically her kidneys. Her kidneys are roughly the same size as that of a ten-month-old child. This causes her to pee a lot. In fact, if she is in a hot climate and has been drinking a great deal, sometimes her kidneys are overwhelmed and start sending liquids to her bladder almost unchanged. One time on a hot movie set she started peeing orange juice.

Although he was well aware of the existence of mirrors, Henry the VII of England had been dressed by others since childhood and had never looked in one. The first time he saw himself in the mirror he was so shocked that he pushed the person who gave it to him down the stairs.

Angelina Jolie has started to use artificial tanning products on her new baby Shiloh. She says that there are two reasons for this: 1) she wants to try and minimize frictions between Shiloh and her adopted children by minimizing differences in skin color, and 2) it's never too early to have a good tan.

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.