And to lighten the mood....

1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
2. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
3. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
4. The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his orders.
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.6. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

Information is only useless if it doesn't fascinate you:

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. (so I guess you had to have the balls to appear in court! boooooo)

It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk

The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. (shudder!)

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. (damn!)

During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks. (look out guy from Rolling Stones)

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have
shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. (now try remembering that THAT'S the word you're looking for!)

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (who figured THAT out?!)

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it. (vomit)

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.

In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.

There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks

In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital