Body Integrity Identity Disorder is a psychological disorder where sufferers feel they would be happier living without arms and legs

When Catherine di Medici was Queen of France she kept a Flying Squadron of 80 women who slept with powerful men to learn their secrets

Fresh urine is cleaner than saliva or facial skin Healthy urine is sterile and contains little or no bacteria when it leaves a person s body

The longest engagement on record was Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez After dating for 67 years they finally got married They were both 82

On an average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen 21% hydrogen 9% carbon dioxide 7% methane and 4% oxygen Less than 1% is what makes them stink

It was customary to break a bottle of champagne on the bow of a boat when launched The Titanic launching did not include the traditional bottle-breaking

Abdul Kassam Ismael Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century carried his library with him wherever he went Four hundred camels carried the 117 000 volumes

All of Albert Einstein s clothes (shirts ties ect ) were the same He felt his time was to valuabe and didn t want to waste it choosing different combinations

The man who built the Titanic: After the construction of Titanic a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be With an ironic tone he said: Not even God can sink it

More than 100 Chicago waiters were arrested in 1918 amid accusations that restaurant workers were plotting to slip Mickey Finn drugs into the food and drink of bad tippers

James Brown set a brand new world record as his astonishing collection hit a whopping 322 different vaccum cleaners - more than twice as many as his nearest rival who owned 160

A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space Understandably he shot her dead

During World War II Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method

Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open

British poet and critic Edith Sitwell would lie down in an open coffin for several minutes to focus her mind Nothing wrong with clearing your head but the fact that she had a coffin lying around to do it from is a little eccentric