-In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.
-In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
-In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
-On average a person eats 8 spiders while asleep over their lifetime.
-David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.
-The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
-45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
-On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later.
-The music for "The Star Spangled Banner" comes from a British drinking song named "Anacreon."
-There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
-TIME magazine's Man of the Year for 1982 was the computer.
-In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
-The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin.
-Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 altogether.
-The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof. Also the redwoods extremely high water content reduces the tree's susceptibility to fire.

• In Los Angeles, years ago it was legal to cook in your bedroom, but not to sleep in your kitchen.

Some of those look very fake, like the "camera that can see through people's clothes".

-In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

The distinct flavor of Cashews comes from Cyanide, and in fact the fruit of the nut is quite poisonous.