Did you know...

• Sir Winston Churchill once caught a blue-fin tuna using only a kite string and a hot-buttered scone?
  
• Harrison Ford was named after Immanuel Harrison, a mid-16th century English phlebotomist?
  
• the common cattle grub can eat an entire cow in three days?
  
• Morristown, New Jersey's public library is built on the site of an ancient Indian pyrite mine?
  
• women have 4.5 more fluid ounces of blood in their bodies than men do?
  
• in Brunei, it is considered impolite to wave 'goodbye'?
  
• 7% of Americans believe that masturbating will cause blindness?
  
• bedbugs bark enthusiastically whenever they smell human flesh?
  
• Abraham Lincoln once sold peanut oil in a traveling circus?
  
• styrofoam has been used in China for lip implant surgery?
  
• money isn't everything?
  
• synchronized swimmers have larger lungs than average humans?
  
• you could go to jail in Connecticut for trying to educate a dog?
  
• George Takei ("Sulu" from "Star Trek") once witnessed the apparition of Harry Houdini?
  
• six out of seven dentists suffer from insomnia?
  
• in Waterloo, Nebraska, barbers may not eat onions between the hours of 7 AM and 7 PM?
  
• you can only compete in a swim meet in Hawaii if you don't wear swim trunks?
  
• in Houston, Texas, it is illegal to buy Limburger cheese, goose liver, or rye bread on a Sunday?
  
• in Saco, Missouri, it is against the law for women to wear hats that might frighten children or animals?
  
• in Tennessee you are forbidden to use a lasso to catch fish?
  
• it's illegal for an elephant to guzzle beer in Natchez, Mississippi?
  
• in Michigan a woman's hair is owned exclusively by her husband?
  
• in Homer, Illinois, only police officers can legally carry slingshots?
  
• children are not allowed to collect old cigar butts in Rochester, New York?
  
• it is against the law for babysitters to raid refrigerators in Pennsylvania?
  
• in Maryland it is illegal to take a lion to the movies?
  
• in South Bend, Indiana, it is illegal for monkeys to smoke cigarettes?
  
• in St. Paul, Minnesota, it's against the law for cats to chase dogs up telephone poles?
  
• barbers in Elkhart, Indiana, are prohibited from scaring children into being quiet by threatening to cut off their ears?
  
• in New Hampshire it is illegal to dye margarine pink?
  
• the aeroplane was almost named the 'Orvilleplane'?
  
• an Iranian prison guard once punched Mickey Mouse in the stomach?
  
• the average mosquito has 47 teeth?
  
• the painter Degas became nauseous whenever in the presence of flowers or perfume?
  
• three in four men have 'innie' belly buttons?
  
• the German Edict of Pirmasens in 1214 AD gave women the right to bathe in fishing streams?
  
• the word 'rodent' comes from the Spanish verb 'rodenar', meaning 'to scurry around quickly, chewing and biting'?
  
• you cannot have the archaic and eat it, too?
  
• Woody Allen once climbed Mount Everest?
  
• biting a poisonous snake builds an immunity to its poison?
  
• no person has ever survived a heartectomy?
  
• Mae West once swallowed 23 goldfish for a drinking bet?
  
• the African swallow can carry a coconut whilst flying?
  
• the largest codpiece ever made was constructed of chocolate?
  
• an anagram of 'Santa' is 'Satan'?
  
• in Nevada it is illegal to drive down a public highway on a camel?
  
• in Montana it is a felony for a wife to open her husband's mail?
  
• it is illegal to fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota?
  
• juggling is illegal in Hood River, Oregon, without a juggling license?
  
• in Wilbur, Washington, you can be fined $300 for riding an ugly horse'?
  
• in Garfield, Montana, it is illegal to draw funny faces on your window shades?
  
• in San Francisco it is illegal to spray people's clothing with saliva spewed out of your mouth?
  
• in Los Angeles you can't bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time?
  
• a dog can't be in a public place without its master on a leash in Belvedere, California?
  
• in Alexandria, Virginia, it is illegal to take a bath without a doctor's permission?
  
• in Miami, Florida, men are strictly forbidden to wear strapless gowns in public?
  
• in Carrizozo, New Mexico, women can't be caught unshaven in public?
  
• in California it is illegal to duck hunt while flying in an airplane?
  
• you can be arrested for selling alcoholic beverages to a moose in Fairbanks, Alaska?
  
• in Yukon, Oklahoma, it is against the law for a patient to pull their dentist's teeth?
  
• there are 239 calories in a two-ounce serving of sulphur?
  
• running with scissors is very dangerous?
  
• in 1949 a man was born with a ten-inch birthmark shaped like Nostradamus?
  
• the common fern suffers depression when kept as a houseplant?
  
• in order to overcome his stage fright, Sir Winston Churchill would imagine that every person in his audience had a hole in their sock?
  
• women eat 3 times more chocolate than men annually?
  
• Thomas Hobbes feared the dark and always slept with the lights on?
  
• barbed wire was invented in 1827 by Barbara Wyre, the American poet?
  
• litchi nuts have been found to increase potency in male rhinos by 150%?
  
• it would take 5,198,336 oranges to fill the Taj Mahal?
  
• mashed potatoes have excellent exfoliative properties?
  
• government employees typically spend six hours daily complaining about their jobs?
  
• homemade elderberry wine often contains lethal amounts of arsenic?
  
• the Albert Camus once played goalie for an all-women's soccer team?
  
• Jim Nabors was once considered for the fifth head on Mt. Rushmore?
  
• in 1989 a Polish man gave birth to a clock radio?
  
• in 1995 Liberace's ghost was seen in a Saskatchewan, Canada, pool hall?
  
• Rowan Atkinson is a tap dancer by profession?
  
• Memphis, Tennessee, has the highest birth rate of twins in the world?
  
• weasels smell with special olfactory receptors behind their ears?
  
• the first all-nude cartoon was 1927's 'Rumpleforeskin'?
  
• of 23,000 soldiers, only 15 men died in the Battle of Fromage, 1813?
  
• the modern calendar was devised my a Roman slave named Calendas?
  
• Napoleon suffered from aelurophobia, or the fear of cats?
  
• if you die in your dream, you will die in real life?
  
• the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains over 25 faked masterpieces?
  
• Jimmy Carter once jogged from Atlanta to Richmond while barefooted?
  
• 78% of Americans believe in UFOs?
  
• in 1132 there were seven 'official' popes, all serving simultaneously?
  
• a bee has to beat its wings 250 times a second to stay in the air?
  
• you can get twice the mileage out of your underwear by turning it inside out?
  
• when you sneeze, the air shoots out of your nose at 100 miles per hour?
  
• the longest hair ever belonged to Swami Pandarasannadhi, an Indian monk, and measured 26 feet in length?
  
• the human body contains 3,000,000 sweat glands?
  
• the average person breathes 13 million cubic feet of air in a lifetime?
  
• a person's skin weighs from six to ten pounds?
  
• in Saudi Arabia, sheep's eyes are considered a delicacy?
  
• Turkey leads the world in cereal consumption?
  
• a pound of angel food cake is as heavy as a pound of lead?
  
• asparagus makes your urine turn bright yellow?
  
• the peach is a Chinese symbol of immortality?
  
• the almond is not a nut... it is a fruit?
  
• marrara, a raw meat dish served in southern Sudan, actually includes urine and bile as flavoring ingredients?
  
• reading a novel a week has been found to reduce nebulaphobia (the fear of fog)?
  
• 7% of people still believe that Elvis is alive? (thanks to Angela C)
  
• that only 72% of people believe in heaven? (thanks to Angela C)
  
• factoids, when taken in massive quantities, can kill brain cells faster than alcohol?