In 1994, the US army speculated about the creation of a “gay bomb”.

A newborn baby is hairier than you !

Lions can mate up to 50 times a day.

In Ancient Greece, a man was considered more virile if he had a small penis.

Movies are shorter on television than in movie theaters. Nothing is cut off, but the speed is slightly increased.

Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.

France has been using the German time zone since the German occupation during WWII.

In the USA, a federal law made it illegal to have contact with “extraterrestrials or their vehicles”. Enforcement of the law led to a fine of 5000 dollars or a one year prison term.

It's usually said that the Great Wall of China is “the only human building that can be seen from space”...actually it's false.

The famous Hamburger sandwich comes from Hamburg.
The Hot-Dog comes from Frankfurt (name before americanization: Frankfurter)

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...

Each year, worldwide, more people die from firearms than from drowning.

Writing the Faust tragedy took 59 years to Goethe.

Dark chocolate has the property to reduce the blood pressure level.

It is impossible to put a finger in the nose, one in the anus and one in each ear simultaneously.

Charlie Chaplin secretly took part in a Chaplin look-alike competition in San Francisco. He came in third.

As of 2005, one hundred billion Bic pens have been sold all over the world. It represents enough ink to draw a line from here to Pluto and come back… more than 20 times.

80 billion human beings have been born on the planet since the first humans, and half of them in the last two millennia !

A cockroach can live up to several weeks headless before it dies of starvation.

Bolivian government changed 188 times in 167 years.