The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.

Native peoples of South America catch piranha and use their razor-sharp teeth to make tools and weapons.

Researchers have discovered that events such as pleasant family celebrations or evenings with friends boost the immune system for the following two days. Unpleasant moments had the opposite effect: negative events, such as being criticized at work, weakened the immune function for one day

Former passing quarterback-great Johnny Unitas made this observation about professional football: "The other guy is out there to beat you. He's getting paid to win and he gets chewed out for mistakes just like you do. He's not stupid. ...There is no room for the guy who doesn't use his head."

He certainly is -- The Bugs Bunny short Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), in which a medieval Bugs Bunny traded blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon, won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons of 1958. Additionally, Director Chuck Jones' 1957 classic, What's Opera, Doc?, features Bugs and Elmer parodying ...Read more

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

It takes 100 avos to equal one pataca, which is Macao's basic unit of currency. According to one source, Macao is the only country that uses the pataca as its basic legal tender.

Mexico banned imported films that depicted Mexicans as villains in 1926. The ban was ignored by Hollywood, but the effect on exports south of the border was sufficiently serious for the Hays Office to order no more Mexican heavies in 1930. Film censors let it be understood that it would be quite acceptable for the stock foreign undesirable to be...Read more

The first documented evidence of its use was attributed to English industrialist Thomas Rawlinson who ran a foundry at Lochaber and who saw the benefits that a detachable garment would make, for the comfort and safety of his workers. This gave rise to the mistaken claim that "it was an Englishman

Cars produce about four times their own weight in carbon dioxide each year. The average home produces 50 tons of carbon dioxide each year.

The human being is the longest-lived of all existing mammals.

During the middle ages, only men wore diamonds, as a symbol of their courage and virility. However, since 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy, diamonds have been the gem of choice for men who wanted to melt a woman's heart.

An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, which is equivalent to a human being pulling a 10-ton trailer.

L. Frank Baum, the author of the "The Wizard of Oz," couldn't swim. He always smoked a cigar when he was wading in the water so he could tell when he was getting in too deep.

"E" is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet, "Q" is the least.

Butter is made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, donkeys, horses, water buffaloes, and yaks. Camel's milk has very small fat globules and is difficult to churn into butter. Butter has been colored yellow since the 14th century.

Several of the Bond girls namely Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger were unable to match an alluring voice to their sexy physical attributes. For each of them, their lines were dubbed by aspirant actress Nikki van der Zyl, who later left the film industry to practice as a barrister. On Doctor No, van der Zyl did ...Read more

A cluster or bunch of bananas is called a hand. Individual bananas are called fingers.

In regions of India where the soil is red, elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.

A type of lizard, the chuckwalla, escapes pursuers by crawling into a crack in a rock and inflating its body with air so that it is wedged tightly into the crack and can't be pulled out.