Little Known Facts

So that's why my feet are burning when I walk on the beach barefooted

 

This is the best law I ever heard of:

In 15th Century Scotland, selling impure or weakened beer or wine was a crime punishable by death.

 

To engage in “lascivious banter” in Little Rock, Arkansas could lead to 30 days in jail, and in New York City, men can be fined $25 every time they “gaze suggestively” at a woman.

 

Watching BBC1 would have killed me too.

 

Frenchman Christian Poincheval has invented a pill that makes a person's farts smell like roses or chocolate.

 

Lucy Hayes, wife of President Rutherford Hayes, owned the first Siamese cat in the United States.

 

The Bio Bus in Bristol. England is powered entirely by methane gas produced by human waste.

 

Have the Radical Islamists tried to blow it up yet or is something powered by human waste off limits like eating with your left hand?

 

The Demeter Fragrance Library sells perfume in such odors as dirt, frozen pond, paint, lobster, earthworm and funeral home.

 

Astronauts on the Apollo missions had velcro inside their helmets to help them scratch their noses.