Cram was a game show on Game Show Network.  For the bonus round, contestants (who had been up for over 24 hours) had to lie down in bed and listen to facts that Miss Pickwick slowly read to them in a dulcet, soothing voice.  They then had to recall those facts while balancing on something.  I have compiled a list of many of the warm and snuggly bedtime facts that Miss Pickwick reads to the contestants.

I have to thank my contributors for sending me so many of these.  Their additions are listed under their names further down the list.  If you would like to send in facts, please read the doodad text at the bottom of this page.

Hugh Carmichael of Lima, Ohio, claims to have had the same dream every night for 37 years.  He dreams he's sleeping.

Dolphins smile, but not on purpose.

Seventeen percent of Entertainment Tonight viewers believe Elvis is still alive.

In the US, we dial 911.  In Norway, it's 90000.

One of the one-hundred least asked questions in America is "Do you remember to bring the llama?"

White chocolate has no chocolate in it.

Joe Mannix was run off the road more than any other TV detective.

Horses can't vomit.

Everyone who's born prior to 1870 is dead.

Of all the wild animals in the world, less than one percent ever make it to the front of a greeting card.

Women most prefer to have their tattoos placed on the lower back, just above the buttocks.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

The titmouse is a small, grayish, North American bird.

In 2002, a British man was ejected from Shea Stadium for asking a vendor what the best item would be for throwing at the players.

The last calendar year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained value was 1999.

On globes, the little pink country above Latvia is Estonia.

Of all of Hannah-Barbara's animal cartoon stars, only Snagglepuss and Huckleberry Hound were without sidekicks.

Fifty-eight percent of men will make passes at women who wear glasses.

Most of the villains in the Bible have red hair.

The subject of sex was never discussed on The Brady Bunch.

According to the American Society of Psychics, belly lint is a sign of good fortune.

Gorillas can't swim.

Girl wedgies are sometimes called melvins.

Clay Henry, a 22-year-old beer-guzzling goat, served as the mayor of Lajitas, Texas.

Charbonneau recommended one should swallow a toad every morning.

There are over one million tubes in the human kidney.

The average eyeball weighs one ounce.

Twenty-one percent of U.S. parents with newborns admit to being secretly miserable.

Margaret Bean of Iowa called the Butterball Hotline to find out if her 23-year-old frozen turkey was still fresh.

When feeling amorous, a male sea otter grabs the female's nose with his teeth.

Both Sharon Stone and Madonna claim to have IQ's over 150.

In real life, Captain Kangaroo was neither a captain nor a kangaroo.

Einstein proved time is relative.  For example, something supposed to last 15 minutes could drag on for 15 years.

Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.

Even as we speak, someone in the world besides me is saying "Even as we speak".

The word Sunday is not in the Bible.

Fredrich Niche believed pain is good for you, and he had a big mustache.

Frowning burns more calories than smiling.

The 67th most misspelled word in the English language is drunkenness.

In a 1996 speech to the Iowa Pork Producers, Bob Dole said "Bob Dole" twelve times.

The African lungfish can survive buried in a dry lake bed for up to two years.

Every doorway in the village of Magroom in Chad was shaped like a keyhole to keep out unwanted villagers.

Fifty-one percent of drivers admit to picking their noses behind the wheel.

A Canadian man drank milk and gasoline, then vomited into the fireplace, causing an explosion that killed him and his sister.

According to the rap dictionary, a "boo-boo head" is a ho.

If a sheep is trained to turn a light on and off, he'll leave it on 82% of the time.

"The sixth Sikh sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Ninety-two percent of all romance novels contain the phrase "heaving bosoms".

"Hick" comes from the name Richard.  "Hillbilly" comes from the name William.

The wife of PepsiCo CEO, Steven Reinemund, buys Coca-Cola products whenever she's mad at her husband.

An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, bans couples from having sex inside a store's walk-in meat freezer.

The guy who writes these things woke up at 5:46 this morning.

A woman in California totaled three cars in three weeks, all at the same intersection.

Fifty-one percent of Americans would rather be mugged than audited.

Manilla envelopes come from bananas.

The most popular role-model for male college freshmen is Adam Sandler.

Studies show that if given a choice, birds actually prefer to poop on cars.

Albert Einstein spoke his first words at age three.

There have been 24 major feature films with the word "monkey" in the title.

Elmo Clovis learned his wife was leaving him from messages she wrote on strippers' bodies.

Neurologists say biting the inside of your mouth is the third-most annoying thing you can accidentally do to yourself.

A slang term for vomiting is "ralphing".

In 1962, the 18.5-million dollar Mariner Space Probe crashed into the Atlantic because of a typo.

A peasant is a small farmer or farm laborer.  A pheasant is a large game bird with a long sweeping tail and brilliant feathers.  So, they're two different things.

An average of three children a year are carried away by kites they are flying.

Three men named Green, Barry, and Hill, were hanged for murdering Sir Edmond Barry at Greenbarry Hill.

Cows chew eighteen hours a day.

According to the American Pediatrics Society, French boys wet their beds four times as much as American boys.

In the film The Ten Commandments, the man who drums as Moses descends from the mountain is musician Herb Albert.

Italian Parliament member Luigi Barzini, proposed that ugly people be forbidden to appear naked in public.

Shipwrecked in the Pacific, Lotti Stevens drifted for thirteen days on the back of a giant manta ray.

The National Association of Broadcasters forbids showing gargling on television.

Experts predict that in 10 years, there may be no more bananas. 

One-hundred seventy people attended Oklahoma congressman Tom Coburn's first-annual safe sex slideshow.

The longest face-slapping contest on record was thirty hours and took place in 1931.

The world record for the fastest walking robot is 13 mph.

The trickle-down effect can be a good thing for economic development, and a bad thing for men wearing light-colored pants.

A Washington state man failed to kill himself 11 times.  He was later killed when a man jumping off a building landed on top of him.

Ting-Chang planted two palm branches in holes bored into his skull.

Two California men who met at a serenity training seminar got into a bloody brawl out in the parking lot.

The Library of Congress spent $72,000 in 1997 to create a Braille edition of Playboy.

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's signature is worth 50 times more than Bob Dole's.

According to the American Institute of Psychics, the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is 10⁶⁴.

A Manchurian farmer named Wang had a 13-inch horn growing from the back of his head.

In Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches", the plain-bellied sneetch's problem is solved by Sylvester McMonkey McBean.

According to the French, they don't have accents.  We do.

The original Godzilla costume weighed 220 pounds.

Morgan Ford has a fruitcake that has been in his family since 1878.

If you're at an auto race, and a tire flies off and hits you in the head, you can be killed.

A pub owner in England provides his drunk patrons with walkers equipped with bells and reflectors.

Starting from the bottom, the correct order of intelligence is moron, imbecile, and then idiot.

The scientific name for a gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla.

According to a poll of single women, the fifth-worst thing a man can do on a first date is loudly pass gas.

Sixty-three percent of Americans have no idea what creamy nougat is.

Don Gorske has eaten 18,265 Big Macs.  That comes to 14.5 cows, 6.25 million sesame seeds, 1,900 pickles, 563 pounds of cheese, and 100 gallons of Special Sauce.

While making a film on the dangers of low bridges, Mike Stewart was killed when the truck he was standing on passed under a low bridge.

In 1996, a British retiree was sentenced to 56 days in jail for excessive pigeon feeding.

Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.

A bottle of champagne contains 56 million bubbles.

In Louisiana, in the 1800's, cockroaches fried in oil were used to cure indigestion.

Thirty-two percent of Americans believe that people can be trusted.

An estimated 20,000 employees are secretly plotting to murder someone they work with.  Only .059% will actually carry it out.

Ham from the left side of pigs is more tender because pigs only use their right leg to scratch themselves.

In 1994, three women were caught smuggling drugs to men in prison by hiding them in the folds of their flesh.

Scotland exports sand to Saudi Arabia.

At the current rate of increase, all Americans will be overweight by the year 2075.

To be assured of good fortune, a bride in Old England had to be kissed at her wedding by a chimney sweep.

An informal performance by folk singers is called a hootenanny.

The Professor, Rock Bottom, and the Master Cylinder were all after Felix the Cat's Magic Bag.

On party invitations sent out by the Primate Foundation of South Florida, B.Y.O.M. stood for Bring Your Own Monkey.

There really was an Aunt Jemima and an Uncle Ben, but there never was a Mrs. Butterworth or a Farmer John.

Dogs bite 12,877 Americans each and every day.

Forbes Magazine stopped trying to count all the world's billionaires in 1997.

NASA buys plastic owls to protect the space shuttle from woodpeckers.

The Dell computer interns were named the most annoying recurring TV ad characters in 2002.

The record for the fastest selling book in the world was set in 1974 by the Guinness Book of World Records.

More beef jerky is shipped to Marlon Brando's private island than to the entire country of Pakistan.

The Alabama State Court of Appeals ruled it a crime to call someone a skunk.

Gladys Gooding played for the Booklyn Dodgers, the New York Knicks, and the New York Rangers.  She was an organist.

In 1998, one high school in New Jersey was evacuated 30 times for bomb threats.

An iceberg that separated from Antarctica in 1995 could've been enough for 70 quadrillion ice cubes.

Australian aborigines consider it socially acceptable to defecate in public.

People who walk with long arm swings are 41% happier than those who walk with short arm swings.

One percent of Americans believe the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima was ordered by Richard Nixon.

The largest manufacturer of female attire in the world is Mattel.

Legally, you cannot claim your cat as a dependent on your taxes.

The average guinea pig's life is 13 months longer than the average Jennifer Lopez marriage.

Alexander the Great's funeral procession cost $600 million.

Because his audiences saw only his right side, pianist Frederic Chopin wore a beard on only that side of his face.

You can buy a Sigmund Freud action figure for just $7.99.

A 300-pound Big Boy statue was kidnapped and held for ransom from the Toledo Bob's Big Boy.

Representative Les Aspen believes the Pentagon can solve the morale problem in the military by recruiting more stupid people.

According to two Spanish physicists, the estimated temperature of hell is 832 degrees Fahrenheit.

At some point in their lives, 43% of Americans will say, "That's it, I'm calling the police."

If a big, red truck going 90 miles per hour hits a little, blue scooter going 30 miles per hour, the little blue scooter will be sent flying at 209 miles per hour.

In 1996, NASA's computers accessed the Penthouse Website 153 times a day.

Four percent of the world's population believe they're worthy of being worshipped.

If your body temperature were 86 degrees, you could live to be 200.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have not won a single postseason game since 1988.

Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane.

As a reward for her archeological discoveries, Jane Duelafoy was granted permission by the French government to wear pants.

The Canadian Mounties haven't mounted horses since 1938.

While doctors were extracting a cell phone from Antonio Mendoza's rear end, it rang on three separate occasions.

Mobsters have always enjoyed going to Florida.

Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.

According to a recent poll of adult males, the most erotic thing a woman can eat is a chocolate-covered banana.

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

There are no tigers in Africa.

"True dat" is an urban slang form of "that's true"

Brad Pitt once had a job wearing a chicken suit outside an El Pollo Loco.

The average American senior citizen takes 14 prescription drugs.

As of this taping, 27-year-old Wilamena Snie from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is still a virgin.

There are 58 million dogs in the U.S.

Two-hundred people attended the first World Dracula Congress.

Martha Stewart has seven phone lines connected to each of her five car phones.

There have been Bigfoot sightings in Florida, but there, he's known as the skunk ape.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans think chimps are monkeys.  But they're not.  They're chimps.

All hamsters in the US descended from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

A Swedish couple spelled their child's name Brfxccxxmnpcclmmnprx11116, which they said was pronounced "Albin."

A gold mine is a slang term for something rather lucrative.  A gold mime is a silent, annoying clown painted gold.

A fully loaded supertanker takes at least 20 minutes to stop.

The German name for Laurel and Hardy is Dick und Doof.

Six out of ten men say they're intrigued by chest hair removal.

Between eating taffy and and being hit in the mouth, the worst thing for your teeth is being hit in the mouth.

No one in Oklahoma has a pet sea lion.

A man from Minnesota claims to have given birth to 18 alien babies.

In Gilligan's Island, the Professor was the only castaway with his own hut.  No one knows why.

Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

An astronaut's ears shrink in space.

At least 100,000 neutered pigs have been implanted with fake testicles.

"To expel vomitus," is another way to say "To throw up."

Fish cough.

Firehouses have circular stairways so horses can't walk up them.

In a Chinese proxy wedding, the bridegroom can be represented by a rooster.

Three percent of people nicknamed "Lefty" are right-handed.

It costs ten dollars to rent a duck for the Annual Great American Duck Race in Denning, New Mexico.

Seventy-five percent of divorced women will remarry.

A brewery in Canada delivers its outdated beer to farms where it's mixed into the feed.

Bob Dole is older than the Empire State Building.

In 1977, the IRS sent a tax refund check for $19.17 to a pig named Waterhole Ike.

The most common complaint filed about rental cars is strange odor.

President Calvin Coolidge would drape his yellow cat on his shoulders like a fur and walk around the Oval Office.

Twelve percent of male prison inmates say they find Leonardo DiCaprio to be dreamy.

The Secret Service code name for President Bush's daughter Jenna is Six-Pack.

Dogs who regularly lick themselves live 1/3 longer than dogs that don't.

Venezuela is the world capital of nose jobs.

Twenty-three percent of Americans blame their weight problems on the government.

Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on her stomach that spells out "What nourishes me, also destroys me."

Humans and monkeys are the only two mammals that jump up and down when they're excited.

Fish have eyelids.

The founder of the New Church of the Catastrophe says his three favorite things are God, natural foods, and hallucinating.

In the '60s, men were forbidden from becoming Avon ladies.

Twenty-four percent of American college students believe they're the next Bill Gates.

In 1994, the Beatles out-earned the Rolling Stones by $9 million.

A man in Japan works as a human punching bag. He charges $14 to take punches for three minutes.

Sixty percent of Americans prefer boxers to briefs.

The world's most popular soap opera is Mexico's The Rich Also Cry.

Leaving the top dresser drawer open causes 11,000 household accidents every year. Leaving the bottom drawer open causes 22,000.

David Edward Filtchner lives in fear of the Publisher's Clearing House team, believing the giant check they carry is a bomb.

Every night, an estimated 10,000 Americans will go out to see some coworker's gig.

As of this taping, the national debt is $6,888,578,884,981.86.

In the film, Back to the Future, Jennifer's grandmother's phone number was 555-0123.

In Texas, the maximum number of sex toys you are allowed to own is five.

Spotted hyena cubs fight until only one sibling remains.

The stock market does better on sunny days than on cloudy days.

There are 371 ways to skin a cat.

Six percent of Americans believe God speaks to them through celebrities.

Prime Minister Tony Blair was the lead singer of a rock band called the Ugly Rumours.

Karl Marx was once a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune.

In Iceland, 37% of people say the appearance and design of underwear is somewhat important to them.

Eleven percent of Americans think a Nielsen family is a family from a '50s sitcom.

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, he'd chuck as much wood as he needed to.

Cuisine Queen Julia Child once said... "Anything that says healthy, I stay away from."

When asked by a reporter whether he thought young women today were too promiscuous, Al Gore responded, "I just have no firsthand experience."

Eight percent of Americans say their favorite shape is a parallelogram.

Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon's assistant.

Of the 535 subscriptions Hustler magazine offered members of Congress in 1997, sixteen were rejected.

The article of clothing most often soon on streets and highways are shoes.

Since 1997, there have been 2,100 lawsuits filed against latex manufacturers.

Though it's thought of as a surfing term, "Cowabunga" was originally a greeting exchanged between Buffalo Bob and Chief Thunderhead on Howdy Doody.

The Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho was promoted under the slogan "Don't give away the ending. It's the only one we have."

Seven percent of American males who live with a woman have no idea why they're supposed to leave the toilet seat down.

The normal age for boys to switch from bubble baths to showers is eleven.

Rabbits eat their own feces.

In the epic Beowulf, even more ferocious than the monster, Grendel, is his mother who is referred to as Grendel's mother.

A Texas woman said she shot her neighbor because she'd been sending electrical charges through the air at her.

If the average American had the money, he or she would be willing to pay $487,000 to find true love.

The name of the dog in The Little Rascals was Petey.

There are 50,000 business cards on exhibit at the Business Card Museum in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania.

A Toronto company charges $1,750 for a portable dungeon.

In their ad for a housekeeper, the Powell family included the prerequisite: must be wise-cracking and sarcastic like Florence on The Jeffersons.

No psychic has ever won a state lottery.

Smoking a cigarette greatly increases one's need to have a bowel movement.

Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer.

At Mo' Better Meaty Meat Burger in Los Angeles, there are four specials named after O.J. Simpson trial participants.

Four months after calling President Clinton a scumbag, Congressman Dan Barton admitted to being an adulterer.

The co-authors of Staying Married and Loving It were married five times between the two of them.

Godzilla's scream in the 1998 remake was eighteen decibels louder than a jackhammer.

Queen Victoria's doctor prescribed her marijuana.

Hanna-Barbara cartoon character Peter Potamus flew around in a balloon with So-So, his happy monkey sidekick.

Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart said, "One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset."

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye.

Sixty-one percent of Americans glance at their beverage after each sip.

The surgical mask that provides the best protection against SARS is the N95 model.

It's okay to have a fast food restaurant called the Crazy Chicken, but it's not a good idea to have one called the Mad Cow.

There are over six-hundred million phones on the Earth.

Until 1850, White House meals were cooked over a fireplace.

The British spend five times as much on lottery tickets as they do on tea.

Frank Tower swam away from three major shipwrecks, the Titanic, the Empress of Ireland and the Lusitania.

Soft mud or slime at the bottom of a lake is called ooze.

A locust is merely a migratory grasshopper. Nothing more, nothing less.

In 1929, musician Leonid Stokowski told an audience he didn't understand clapping and that he found the noise strange and disturbing.

According to Procter and Gamble, Mr. Clean's full name is Veritably Clean.

Bookmaker Eddie Holts held a one-yard race between a snail and a slug in which $171,000 was wagered. The snail won.

The abbreviation for abbreviation is abrv.

Tarpon Springs, Florida calls itself the sponge capital of the world.

Blind bicyclist, Ned Thornton of Vancouver, rode the same three mile route every day for two years with only one accident.

The world's largest toilet was custom built for Emil Halish of Seattle. The seat was seventy inches in diameter.

A field in Oregon where prostitutes used to set up their tents is now called Naughty Girl Meadow.

A perfect score in Pac-Man is 3,333,360.

There is no statue of limitations. It's a statute.

Eighty-eight percent of women who offer to do a man's chart have a romantic interest in them.

Twelve Playboy centerfold models have claimed their favorite book is by Ayn Rand.

The only U.S. city called "Beach" is in landlocked North Dakota.

People who are startled awake by a sudden loud noise tend to have worse days than people who are allowed to wake naturally.

Fifty-eight percent of full-time mothers feel working mothers look down on them.

Eleven percent of Americans believe they have seen a UFO.

Newt Gingrich's monthly head massage at the Bubble's Hair Salon in Washington D.C. lasts five minutes.

Ants don't sleep.

According to the Reverend Billy Graham, heaven is 1,500 cubic miles.

The last words of Civil War general John Sedgwick before being killed by enemy fire, were "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"

Babies of pregnant women who watch soap operas often recognize the theme music. The effect is called Fetal Soap Addiction.

The east coast receives twenty-two percent more rainfall on Saturdays than on Mondays.

The mixture of saliva and beverage that returns to the bottle after swigging is called backwash.

One time tennis star Yvonne Goolagong's last name means kangaroo's nose in Aborigine.

Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia believed the Bible had curative powers, and he ate a few pages whenever he felt ill. After a stroke, he ate the entire Book of Kings and died of a bowel obstruction.

Only thirty-six percent of Americans who earn at least sixty-thousand dollars a year believe the meek shall inherit the Earth.

On average, there are ninety-one industrial compounds and pollutants in an American's bodily fluids.

The ménage a trios chair, available at Kinky Joe's Erotic Furniture seats five people.

The life expectancy of a dentist is ten years less than the national average.

The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

In 1993, a Colorado man shot and wounded his psychiatrist for being overly analytical.

There is a ten percent chance that an adolescent boy will be intentionally kicked in the genitals at one time or another.

Wikki, Tuffie, Gookie, Mookie and Pokey are all Major League baseball players.

Singer Lyle Lovett is afraid of cows.

In 1997, the diamond-encrusted miracle bra from Victoria's Secret was priced at one million dollars.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.

If your child purposely pours a bowl of cereal over your head, he may have Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

In a poll of school children, kids say the most boring activity is having to listen to other students.

The fine for begging without a permit in Orlando is five hundred dollars.

Since 1998, sixty-six people in North Carolina have been killed by cars while lying in the middle of the road.

Sheep will not drink from running water.

According to 106-year-old Ester Hammershaw, the only medicine she's ever used is ointment.

An Omaha sales manager was fired for telling a paraplegic employee she expected him to bend over backwards for her.

The defensive line of the 1969 Minnesota Vikings was called the Purple People Eaters.

The French Music Hall artist, Petomane, had the ability to suck air into his rectum and pass gas perfectly in tune.

Eleven percent of married men say that if they could go back in time, they wish they could go back to a time before they met their wives.

Singer Pat Boone once sported as many as twelve temporary tattoos.

The eleventh most successful way of keeping a suicidal person from jumping off a building is by yelling "don't jump."

Paul McCartney can't read music.

Seventy-eight percent of motorists admit they snap their boogers out the window as they drive.

Bob Dole's dog has had eight puppies with Strom Thurmond's dog.

Today, there are five times as many people named Hootie as there were in 1960.

A man in Sutter, California has conversations with trees that sometimes last an hour.

In 1969, most people stopped saying, "Well, that's a fine 'How do you do?'"

A Colorado company called My Twin will create a doll that looks exactly like your child.

Most of the birds James Audobon painted were dead because he shot them.

Most English words referring to the nose start with the letters "sn," as in snout, sneeze, snot, snore, snivel, snarl, sniff, snoot and snub.

Denver, Colorado is the home of the Cape Cod potato chip.

Rain is good for wicker lawn furniture.

An insipid or boring person is also called a drip.

Seventy-three percent of U.S. men own a pair of Dockers khakis.

If your I.Q. is below 25, you're classified as an idiot.

A mix of raisins and nuts eaten for quick energy is called a "gorp," which stands for "good old raisins and peanuts."

A piece of chit is part of a voucher of a small sum owed for food, drink, merchandise or entertainment.

Food companies like to use the word "zesty" to describe something as having more flavor.

Unlike planar geometry, the parallel postulate does not hold hyperbolic geometry.

In Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, the most outspoken opponent to the cat's visit was the fish.

Ducks have three eyelids.

The first recorded C-section was performed in 1500 by Swiss pig gelder Jacob Nufer on his wife.

On Seinfeld, Kramer dropped a Junior Mint  into a patient's body while viewing an operation.

The best way to save slivers of leftover soap is to moisten them, attach them to a new bar of soap and grip tightly, until they become one.

No one can bench-press 2,000 pounds.

In Ankara, Turkey, Ethan Sahim was knocked unconscious when a cow fell through the roof of a coffee house.

At Hoover's Field, baseball fans enjoy foul balls, a snack made from deep-fried turkey testicles.

Corporate C.E.O. Andrew Siffenbloom wears two layers of flame-retardant padding at bedtime to protect himself from fire-breathing dragons.

In Yiddish, a long journey is called ishlap.

Seventy-three percent of all dogs drawn by first graders are brown.

The longest recorded family feud in America was traced to a quarrel over a tomato plant.

The East Coast Hobo Gathering takes place every year in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.

An Olive, Kentucky man tried to row across the Bering Strait in a bathtub.

In 1977, twenty-two percent of American teens owned a Farrah Fawcett poster.

In the Superman TV series, Superman was 6'2", but Clark Kent was only 5'11".

Twelve percent of Americans don't believe the light turns off when they close their refrigerator door.

Sixty-five million years passed between the time the dinosaurs died out and people appeared on Earth.

On July 4, 1776, the entry in the diary of King George III of England read, "Nothing important happened today."

Six out every ten Americans think they're misunderstood.

In 1982, John Wilson--who was dead--was reelected into the Texas state senate with sixty-six percent of the vote.

The so-called giant octopus in the 1955 film It Came From Beneath the Sea had only six tentacles, so it was a sextopus.

Ninety-four percent of people who say they're happy to have gas have just filled up their car.

Adults who sleep for less than four hours have a significantly higher death rate than those who average six or seven hours a night.

Kellogg's awarded an Ohio man $2,400 after a flaming Pop Tart set fire to his kitchen.

There are twice as many psychic readers as there are plumbers.

More people are killed by donkeys than in air crashes.

In Thailand, it's unacceptable for single women to live away from their parents, so Thai TV began Laverne and Shirley reruns by saying they escaped from an insane asylum.

When my hands feel dry, I like to rub lotion on them.

More girls than boys are born at night.

In Victorian times, doctors prescribed placing a spiked collar around the penis to discourage masturbation.

Most couples split up between 9 P.M. and midnight.

Sixty-one percent of Americans prefer to put their sauces directly on their food.

People are most likely to try and "find" themselves when they are between twenty-seven and thirty-eight years old.

Forty-six percent of Germans believe that those that don't cheat on their taxes deserve only pity.

In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, if a police officer suspects a couple are having sex in a car, he must honk three times and wait two minutes before investigating.

Two percent of Americans believe that our freedom was won from France.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II was made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

Twelve people a year are killed by accidents involving staplers.

In 1999, two women were killed by lightning conducted from their wire bras.

Three-thousand, eight-hundred people attended a Snapple Convention in 1995.

Teenage boys use more shampoo than teenage girls.

The first rubber ducky was manufactured in 1874.

It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

Four percent of people think kangaroos run wild in Arizona.

There are 4,400 different shades of red nail polish.

In California, there are 123 driver's licenses made out to "Jesus Christ".

People whose ears stick out beyond the normal half-inch will make 30% more money than people whose ears don't.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.

It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

If the bottom two rows of keys on your keyboard suddenly failed, the longest word you could still be able to type out is "typewriter".

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

The word "and" appears 46,227 times in the King James Version of the Bible.

Friday is the least likely day for car accidents.

Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.

A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.

In the time of the dinosaurs, none of them ate grass because there wasn't any at the time.

Two percent of Americans think that a "mandate" is two people on a date.

The most common name for American high school sports teams is the Eagles.

Vang is the 1000th-most common last name in America.

Most couples make love at 10:34 PM.

Thanks to Agent0042, Diane, Clevegal, Oscar Rosales, Mike, Michelle, and Alex for the contributions!
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