Tom Hanks is a direct descendent of Abraham Lincoln's mother.
Circus clowns have a "face registry" to prevent other clowns from plagiarizing their faces.
Back in 1869, the first chewing gum was made of mostly rubber.
Prostitutes in ancient Greece wore sandals with nails in their soles which created footprints that read "FOLLOW ME."
More US homes have outhouses than TiVo's.
Deer are responsible for more human deaths per year than bears, snakes, alligators, and sharks combined.
When Allies dropped their very first bomb on Berlin, it landed in a local zoo, instantly killing the Nazi's only elephant.
Last year a man reportedly breast-fed a baby by accident.
Man, the supermodel wife of David Bowie, has only one eyebrow.
During the filming of Psycho, director Alfred Hitchcock would have tea everyday at 4 P.M. with the skeletal prop that was Mrs. Bates.
The word noon originally meant 3 P.M.
Unable to get an alcoholic drink, actor John Barmier once downed a bottle of his wife's perfume.
Raccoons, slugs, and ants all like to drink alcohol.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Baby giraffes drop six feet to the ground when they are born.
Game Boy technology exceeds all of the computer power used to send the first man to the moon.
Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick names her daughter God.
Frank Zappa used to write greeting cards.
The original name of Pepsi was Brad's Drink.
Ellis island immigrants were often served a bowl of Jell-O as a welcome to America.
Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car.
Whoopi Goldberg used to be a mortuary cosmetologist.
Harrison Ford is one of the 50 people barred from entering Tibet.
Charles Bronson claims to have lost his virginity at the age of five to a six year-old girl.
In 16th and 17th century Turkey, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
China has more English speakers than the United States does.
If Jell-O is hooked up to as EEG, it registers movements that are virtually identical to those of the brain waves of a healthy adult.
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
Your are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
In England in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word.
There are more than 500 different types of bananas.
The original Twinkies filling was banana flavored.
On average, 100 choke to death on ball-point pens each year.
On average, people forget 80 percent of what they learn.
The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The average American rearranges their furniture 177 times in their lifetime.
The average life of a toilet is 50 years.
Madonna owns a coat made of lamb fetuses
William Howard Taft was the second president to own a car. He was too fat to drive it.
Chimps have a propensity for lying.
Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
Pigs can become alcoholics.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used to substitute blood.
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