A jail in the US is using a bear on its grounds as an extra deterrent to prisoners wanting to escape
A couple in Sweden are in a court battle with the Swedish government because they won’t allow them to name their daughter Metallica
A recent sexual-abstinence program showed that girls who took part in the program were six times more likely to engage in oral sex and four times more likely to engage in anal sex than girls who didn’t participate
A Texan man was arrested last week after trying to cash a $380bn cheque Seven per cent of cats snore, as opposed to 20 per cent of dogs
The bathroom is the safest place to be during a tornado, but the most dangerous during a lightning storm
In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile
Contrary to the traditional image of the helpful female switchboard operator, the original telephone operators were young boys, who held a reputation for their rudeness and inefficiency
A company based in eastern Canada bottles water, beer and vodka all made from harvested icebergs, thousands of years old
Once in a blue moon” occurs approximately every 33 months, when two full moons appear in the same calendar month
In order to find their way to the egg, sperm implement their sense of smell
Hawaii has no native ground mammals, reptiles, or amphibians
The microwave was invented accidentally after a scientific researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
In the late 19th century, Doctor John Harvey Kellogg invented a food which was to suppress sexual desire and thus eliminate the “evils” of masturbation and other sexual activities. It was named Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
More animals are killed by motorists with cars than by hunters with guns
South Africa used to have two official languages. Now it has eleven
The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from over 2km away
The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it
Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor — the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993