Strange But Useless Information

[HeadCheese]

[b]Strange But Useless Information[/b] 1. Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid creditcards.2. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.3. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed inIreland.4. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.5. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time areteenagers.6. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.7. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out ofhis territory.8. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought hemight be retarded.9. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.10. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sittingon it.11. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.12. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any otherweather.13. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.14. According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that isthe wrong size.15. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.16. The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City.17. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home underfrozen foods.18. Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.19. ,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.20. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.21. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out oftoast.22. In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.23. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.24. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.25. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.26. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recentlyeaten bananas.27. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.28. The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.29. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.30. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.31. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.32. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.33. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000B.C.34. Watch out for flying hockey pucks - they travel at up to 100 mph.35. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.36. % of American drivers think they drive better than anyone else.37. When he's feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female's nose withhis teeth.38. In 1681, the last dodo bird died.39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give hercoffee.40. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.41. An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.42. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.43. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.44. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.45. What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde.46. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.47. The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.48. Every person has a unique tongue print.49. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.50. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.51. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.52. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets intheir wallets.53. Bubble gum contains rubber.54. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.55. In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."56. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.57. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.58. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.59. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.60. Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.61. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.62. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.63. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. [Well, duh,why do you think they go? The men drive them crazy!]64. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.65. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.66. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.67. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [Therest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]68. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.69. An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.70. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.71. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.72. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.73. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in1991.74. Elvis's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."75. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the westernPacific.76. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. [And most of themare in Parma!]77. Most lipstick contains fish scales.78. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.79. Mosquitos have teeth.80. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.81. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.82. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, andElvis Presley.83. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.84. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.85. Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.86. % of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existentialhell."87. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patientswould die.88. An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.89. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant"plenty of excrement."90. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.91. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

[HeadCheese]

[b]Strange But True Stories[/b] (Well... maybe.)A Lebanese woman thought her husband was trying to kill her after he took three Viagra pills at once, "lost all control over himself, and savagely attacked her." It turned out he was just being overly amorous... A former high school teacher in Compton, California has been convicted of filing a false police report after claiming that four students "soaked her in excrement." Subsequent forensic tests indicated that the bulk of the human waste was "inside (her) slacks..." Rescue workers in Delafield, Wisconsin may send Kelli Elias a $2,500.00 bill for their most recent effort. Ms. Elias got lost in the woods, officials claim, for the "seventh time in a week..."A couple in Harwood, North Dakota were surprised Friday morning when a strange man grabbed a beer from their refrigerator and walked into their bedroom. "Hey, what's up?" asked Christopher Ramirez. Ramirez later told police he thought he was in a church... that would explain the beer...Eight people were treated for bullet wounds after a gunfight broke out at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, California this week. The San Francisco Examiner reported that the shooter and another man were fighting over the last prize at a basketball-toss game, a stuffed Tweety Bird... I tot I taw a AK-47...Authorities are on the lookout for a man suspected of robbing the Wachovia Bank. The FBI says the suspect is a male, wearing a white turtleneck and a beige skirt...Operators of a funeral home in Bradenton, Florida are in trouble over their religious beliefs. Bradenton police arrested Paula Albritton and her son, Jimmy Lee Clark, after finding a cadaver at their mortuary with a chest cavity full of voodoo dolls...A man at Miami International Airport jumped in an idling Florida Highway Patrol car and took off, hitting three cars before slamming into a tree. The man identified himself to police as Jesus Christ... when he hit the tree, I distinctly heard him say "Jesus Christ..."A Tallahassee, Florida teacher has resigned after a grand jury investigation decided he exercised "extremely poor judgement" in showing a violent horror film to his high school social studies class. Melvin Caswell says he was unaware of the controversial content of the movie, entitled "I Spit On Your Grave..." A new Connecticut law has established a fund for people who are victims of dishonest lawyers. The Client Security Fund will cost lawyers and judges $75.00 a year... estimates are that the fund will reach 400 gazillion dollars by Friday...Our Bozo of the Week Award goes to Howard Farmer, who allegedly robbed the Pulaski County, Arkansas bank, and was caught minutes later fueling his getaway car at a nearby gas station...Police in Wisconsin are investigating the shooting deaths of David Bucher and Roberta Stone, calling the crime a possible murder-suicide. Kenosha Sheriff's Sgt. John Schwarz said, "They had an on-again, off-again relationship..." I guess it's off again...

[NERV]

donald duck being banned in finland is just an urban legend

[HeadCheese]

Just because it isn't true doesn't make it funny. 
 
It's the internet. All cut and paste jobs from infinitely forwarded emails should be taken with a grain of salt - sometimes quite a bit, actually.

[mikem]

3. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed inIreland.
who was brave enough to figure out that 1400 year old cheese is still edible

[rhineholt]

A FORTY ONE YEAR OLD GOLDFISH!?