30 MORE FACTS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT
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- David Gest (ex-husband of Liza Minnelli) and rapper Da Brat apparently hooked up.
- The Defense Department has acknowledged that it conducted "inappropriate" surveillance of gay and lesbian groups at several universities across the country -- including UC Berkeley -- that were opposed to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law.
- On national television, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston revealed to the world that Bobby once manually removed a "dootie bubble" from Whitney's rectum.
- According to Yale's Economist Ebonya Washington in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, white Republicans are 25% more likely to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP candidate is black.
- According to that same study, in congressional house races, white Democrats are 38% less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black.
- When Patrick Dempsey was 21, he was married to his manager, Rocky Parker, who was 48.
- Before she became a famous sex expert, Dr. Ruth served in Israel as a sniper.
- Ex-Lax was invented by Hungarian immigrant and pharmacist Max Kiss and named after the Hungarian slang term for parliamentary deadlock.
- Cruise control and automatic transmission were invented by a man named Ralph Teetor who was blind starting at the age of five.
- Bluesman Ledbelly was charged with murder -- twice -- and later pardoned by two different governors after they heard him sing.
- According to Harper's Index, a new blog is created every second.
- Tom Cruise told Diane Sawyer that his religion's practice of giving birth in silence is "really about respecting the woman."
- Chuck Norris was once Steve McQueen's karate teacher.
- It is a violation of federal law to use the U.S. flag "for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever." 4 U.S.C. sec 8 (i).
- In 2005, Dick Cheney received more income from Halliburton ($211,465) than from his salary as the Vice President ($205,031).
- Seattle, the Rainy City, gets less rainfall than either Washington D.C. or NYC.
- There is actually a street in Lake Havasu City, Arizona called "Broomrape Lane." Here's the Google Map. And here's the visual proof:
- In 1949, the New York Giants baseball team offered Fidel Castro a $5,000 signing bonus. Castro turned it down.
- Goldie Hawn's real name is Goldie Jean Studlengehawn.
- Since 1996, abstinence-only programs have been given $1 billion in federal funds; none of the programs provide information about safe sex or birth-control methods, other than discussing their likelihood of failure.
- A study on these federally-funded abstinence-programs reports that the curricula erroneously teaches children that "a pregnancy occurs one out of every seven times that couples use condoms" and "a 43-day-old fetus is a 'thinking person.'"
- Horses in Charleston, SC have had to wear diapers in public since 1975.
- In the United States, there are currently 2,225 prisoners serving life sentences with no parole for crimes they committed while juveniles. Outside of the U.S., there are only twelve prisoners serving such sentences.
- One of the Top 15 best-selling singles of all time in the United States is Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)," which sold over four million copies.
- The word "nerd" first appeared in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, where it was the name of one of Suess' many imaginary animals.
- Ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan collected a reported $8.5 million for his memoir.
- Dick Cheney himself was once on the receiving end of an accidental shotgun blast during a hunting trip in the late 1990s.
- Prussian Blue, the 13-year-old female singing duo from Bakersfield, California, sent aid for Hurrican Katrina victims earmarked for Caucasians only. (Of course, this is not surprising since the two tweens are white nationalists.)
- The book that holds the world record for best-selling copyrighted series of all time is the Guinness Book of World Records.
- This is a real photo:
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