• The Statue of Liberty originally had golden earrings until they were stolen in 1908, a crime which remains unsolved to this day.

• Donald Brosofsky of Chelmsford, England has read a Harry Potter book in 23 different languages.

• Saying "XYZPDQ" is banned in at least five American school districts.

• Steve Miller (of The Steve Miller Band) is big band legend Glenn Miller's great nephew.

• A variation of the idiom "easy as pie" exists in almost every major language, ranging from "simple as cooking wontons" in Chinese to "easy as making snow-cake" in Swedish.

• On average, the human brain and cork have equivalent specific gravity.

• Over half of all earthquakes occur between the hours of 2:08 AM and 5:47 AM

• There is a hedge fund headquartered in the suburbs of Paris that invests only in hedges and other ornamental plantings.

• Dolly Madison was the first First Lady to regularly wear a brassiere. In today's American sizing convention it was a 32c during her years in the White House.

• Cro Magnons rarely suffered from acne.

• Scratch and sniff stickers were originally used as medical tools. Their purpose was to detect and identify any deficient smell receptors.

• Eidos Interactive reports that Lara Croft, heroine of their famous Tomb Raider video game series, has "died" 480 million times worldwide.

• Scientists have identified three new cloud varieties, pending approval of the International Society of Meteorologists (ISM), two of which only appear under "ultra-hazardous" conditions.

• The catfish is the only fish that can consciously and independently blink its eyes.

• In the area around Ohio a new species of seaweed has evolved to live in drain pipes.

• A sheet of 20 2¢ U.S. postal "make-up" stamps costs $0.43 to manufacture.

• Until early in the 20th century, Monday the 13th, not Friday the 13th, was considered unlucky.

• Apparently due to their diet, neanderthals never got cavities in their teeth.

• Unclaimed 401(k) accounts, due to death or poor record-keeping, result in $1.4 billion annually for the U.S. federal government. If Social Security is privatized, that number will jump to an estimated $12.9 billion.

• English is the only major language without prejunctive verbs.

• FDA regulations state that spinach fertilizer must be at least 50 percent iron oxide.

• Monkey bile is used in the production of Yellow #5, a popular food-coloring product.

• The longest game of "Mornington Crescent" started in 1935 and continues to this day. The estimated distance a person would have to travel to follow the route is 538,765,900 km, incurring a fare of £2.6 trillion.

• M*A*S*H was recently voted the #1 Best-Loved Television Sitcom in Estonia. Seinfeld ranked #4.

• In six countries worldwide, it is illegal to give a girl a boy's name, and vice versa.

• Conestoga Wagons typically had 14 spokes on each wheel.

• Cal Ripken, Jr. missed two thirds of his team's baseball games when he was a junior in high school.

• Every newspaper in the United States with a circulation of over 100,000 has reduced the size of its newsprint at least once in the last ten years.

• Dwight Eisenhower's favorite breakfast was cheese grits. He always had a three month supply with him when he was leading the Allies in Europe.

• The towns of Lyme and Old Lyme, Ct, have not had a new case of Lyme disease in 27 months

• One in 12 staples manufactured is used by the tea bag industry.

• Blu-Ray discs are shoplifted nearly four times more than HD-DVD disks.

• The Empire State Building was originally going to be named The Citadel.

• The author of the PING (Packet InterNet Groper) utility was briefly investigated by the FBI pornography bureau because of the word "groper".

• "Putin" is Chilean slang for female genitalia, causing major embarrassment for the Russian President during his recent visit.

• Proboscis Monkeys have been observed in the wild using pine cones to clear out their nasal passages.

• The FTC predicts there will be a 490 percent increase in the demand for veterinary dentists in the next 12 years.

• Workers at the distillery that produces Chivas Regal Scotch are contractually entitled to three free bottles each quarter.

• Twenty-five percent of the people who live in North Africa have never seen a rainbow.

• On average, in any twelve month period, those individuals with a net worth of over $125 million spend more time traveling off the ground (helicopters and jets) than they spend traveling on the ground (cars, trains, golf carts, etc.)

• For the average adult male giraffe, it takes 5.02 seconds for food to travel to the stomach after swallowing. For the average adult male human the time is 3.29 seconds.

• When Socrates drank the hemlock juice to commit suicide, he mixed it with carrot juice.

• Impalas are born blind but within 24 hours have eyesight twice as acute as humans.

• The most common number of characters for AOL Instant Message screen names is seven; eight is the second most common. For Yahoo IM 12 is the most common, 16 the second most common.

• Belgium imports more tons of hops per capita than any other nation.

• Ethanol fueled cars were first developed in the 1917, and at the time were considered to be far superior to their gas-powered rivals, but they were never widely distributed, due to Prohibition.

• 76 percent of gods recognized by the International Religious Foundation are male, 12 percent are genderless.

• 99.5 percent of all languages ever spoken are considered dead.

• There are fourteen species whose common names include the word "flying" even though the species does not actually fly. Three are plants.

• George Harrison was the only member of The Beatles to take part in an exorcism.

Thanks to the Fact Check Forums for their wonderful research on the topic of revenge.

• While 82 percent of women say they have "sought revenge" against a previous significant other, only 19 percent of men responding said they've been the victim of acts of vengeance from a previous significant other.

• In 1994, two researches D. Stuckless & R. Goranson, created psychology's first ever "Vengeance Scale". Previous to this test, the "Vengeance Scale" referred to an ESPN news segment describing how badly Shaquille O'neal wanted vengeance on the LA Lakers.

• In 1743, a Scotsman double-bogeyed on a golf hole due to a gopher moving his ball into a sand trap. The man spent the next seven years hunting down and attempting to kill the miscreant gopher. This story survived and was the inspiration for a subplot in the movie Caddyshack.

• 33 percent of people polled online believe that scratching a person's vehicle is a more effective form of revenge than burning down their house.