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10. Mr Garison

Mr. Garrison’s sexuality is complex. During the entirety of the show he has had heterosexual and same-sex relationships, both as a male and female. However, across the series he displays a myriad somewhat conflicting and ambiguous sexual indentities, which he clings to exclusively for long periods of time. This may have some relation to the multiple personality disorder which Mr. Garrison manifested in earlier seasons through Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig.

9. Jimmy
James “Jimmy” Vulmer (formerly Jimmy Swanson), like Timmy, is physically handicapped by muscular dystrophy, but he wears braces and uses crutches to walk. He is able to speak to people, albeit with a severe stutter and a Brooklyn-sounding accent, although he sometimes inappropriately ends his sentences with “very much”, and says, “Wow, what a great audience.” after telling a joke. He likes to perform stand-up comedy, with every joke including, “Have you seen this, have you heard about this?”, in the fashion of Jay Leno. Voiced by Trey Parker, Jimmy’s character is inspired by Tiny Tim Cratchit from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He is generally a popular and gifted student at school, and he is moral and knows how to be a friend. However, he is foul-mouthed and very competitive, even to the point of taking steroids to win the Special Olympics. Jimmy is also one of the few students at South Park who have lost their virginity. In the episode “Erection Day”, he was suffering from constant erections. When Butters told him that having sex would make him stop, he went to the rough part of town and had sex with a hooker (but his erection problem didn’t stop, as he had one when he went on stage at the school talent show that night). Also, in “My Future Self n’ Me”, Jimmy notes that he took ecstasy once and him and his girlfriend stayed up all night having sex.

8. Timmy

Timmy (his full name is probably Timothy), voiced by Trey Parker, is a child with orange hair who uses a wheelchair, but he can actually stand and walk somewhat without his wheelchair. His surname has never been revealed, and in the South Park intro in season four, only the name “Timmy” is shown, followed by an exclamation mark. He usually only says his own name and what sounds like the slurred phrase “livin’ a lie”. In some episodes, he says some other basic words such as names like “Gobbles”, the name of his pet turkey; the word “shit”, as seen in “It Hits the Fan”; “Go” in “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000″; “and the Lords of the Underworld” in “Timmy 2000″; and “Jimmy”, as seen in “Up the Down Steroid” and “Cripple Fight”. In the episode “4th Grade”, right before he thinks that his wheelchair is going to blow up, he actually says, “Please, help me!”. Timmy was originally described as being mentally retarded, but over time his character has become described less as such and more often as “disabled”. In various episodes (such as “Up the Down Steroid”) he appears to be quite cognizant, intelligent, and principled.

7. Leopold “Butters” Stotch

Leopold “Butters” Stotch (voiced by Matt Stone) is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park; his nickname is a play on the word butterscotch. Butters has a large tuft of blond hair on top of his head, and wears an aquamarine jacket with dark green pants. His birthday is on September 11, as revealed in the episode “AWESOM-O.” Having a birthday that’s the same day as a national tragedy is just one of Butters’ many misfortunes. Butters speaks with a distinctive Southern accent with a wholesome manner. The character is loosely based on South Park director of animation Eric Stough, whom Stone and Trey Parker regarded as a “goody-goody” because of his reluctance to offend.

6. Kyle Broflovski

Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the Emmy-award-winning animated series South Park. Voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone, Kyle is one of the show’s four central characters, together with Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman. Stone has asserted that the character is loosely based on himself and his experiences growing up in suburban Colorado.

5.  Jerome “Chef” McElroy

Jerome “Chef” McElroy was a recurring character on the Comedy Central series South Park. He was voiced by Isaac Hayes. The character was killed off in the beginning of the tenth season, following controversy with Hayes, who left the show after the Scientology episode. University legend has it that his character was loosely based on the chef at Sewell Hall at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

4. Stan Marsh
Stanley “Stan” Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. Voiced and based on series co-creator Trey Parker, Stan often trades places with Kyle as the protagonist of the show. Stan is arguably the most “normal” of the kids, and is generally honest, very mature for his age, and well-meaning. He is slightly more assertive than his best friend Kyle. He is often distinctly unimpressed by adults or adult influences, and although not particularly troublesome, holds very little respect for them. Stan also has asthma, as shown in “Sexual Harassment Panda” when Cartman wants to take his inhaler, although this condition has not affected Stan since.

3. Towelie

On the episode commentary, Trey and Matt explain that the origin for Towelie began on a boat trip they took with several writers and friends, where people were constantly telling each other “don’t forget to bring a towel” and the phrase eventually morphed into “Towelie says to bring a towel.”.
Matt and Trey have asserted (in the VH1 special and elsewhere) that they were becoming increasingly aware as to how heavily merchandised and exploited their creations were becoming. Towelie was their way of poking fun at themselves. They designed Towelie as a shallow, two-dimensional (both literally and figuratively) character who has no real purpose except to “spout catch phrases and merchandise the hell out of”. This is why they threw in the fake commercial during the show, and also why Cartman calls him the “worst character ever”.

2. Kenny McCormack

Kenny comes from a poor, violent, and alcoholized family.His friends, especially Eric Cartman, often tease him for his poverty.

Kenny likes toilet humour and pornography, and is more sexually knowledgeable than the rest of the boys. In the episode “Rainforest Schmainforest” (1999), Kenny has a girlfriend named Kelly.

In a running gag for the five first seasons of the show, Kenny died in almost every episode. This was often followed by the catchphrase “Oh my God, they killed Kenny!” “You bastards!”, usually said by Stan and Kyle, or some variation of it. He “permanently” died in the episode “Kenny Dies” (2001), and was taken off the show, with the creators confirming that they had killed the character for good. Despite of this, Kenny returned to the show less than one year later, first as a spirit possessing Cartman in “A Ladder to Heaven”, then as his old self in “Red Sleigh Down”. Kenny still dies in some episodes, most recently in “The List” (2007), but far less regularly than he did before “Kenny Dies”.

1. Eric Theodore Cartman

Eric Theodore Cartman, commonly referred to by his family name, Cartman, is a fictional character and one of four main leads in the animated series South Park. Cartman is voiced by Trey Parker.

Cartman is notably and darkly eccentric, to the point of being evil, and often reacting in violent and over-dramatic ways to events. He dislikes and openly expresses his hatred of any race or group of which he is not a member, particularly of hippies and Jews, which is the cause of his intense rivalry with Kyle Broflovski. He often manipulates others to meet his own ends (at which he is very skilled) regardless of the consequences, even if it can result in death and destruction.

1. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
2. “I, at any rate, am convinced that He (God) does not throw dice.”
3. “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
4. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
5. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
6. “Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”
7. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
8. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
9. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”
10. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
11. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
12. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
13. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
14. “Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.”
15. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
16. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
17. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
18. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
19. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
20. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
21. “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater”
22. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
23. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
24. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
25. “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
26. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
27. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
28. “Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.”
29. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
30. “Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”

‘It’s dangerous, wasteful and too expensive!’ Greens are busily putting the case against nuclear, but there is not a spark of truth in their arguments.

The UK government is expected to announce tomorrow that it will give the green light to the building of new nuclear power stations in the UK - the first since the Sizewell ‘B’ station was completed in 1995. These are urgently needed to make up the shortfall in power supply as older nuclear stations are closed over the next few years.
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In a letter dated November 9, 1939, to his “dear parents and siblings” back home in Cologne, a young soldier stationed in occupied Poland wrote: “It’s tough out here, and I hope you’ll understand if I’m only able to write to you once every two to four days soon. Today I’m writing you mainly to ask for some Pervitin …; Love, Hein.”

Pervitin, a stimulant commonly known as speed today, was the German army’s — the Wehrmacht’s — wonder drug.

On May 20, 1940, the 22-year-old soldier wrote to his family again: “Perhaps you could get me some more Pervitin so that I can have a backup supply?” And, in a letter sent from Bromberg on July 19, 1940, he wrote: “If at all possible, please send me some more Pervitin.” The man who wrote these letters became a famous writer later in life. He was Heinrich Boell, and in 1972 he was the first German to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the post-war period.

Many of the Wehrmacht’s soldiers were high on Pervitin when they went into battle, especially against Poland and France — in a Blitzkrieg fueled by speed. The German military was supplied with millions of methamphetamine tablets during the first half of 1940. The drugs were part of a plan to help pilots, sailors and infantry troops become capable of superhuman performance. The military leadership liberally dispensed such stimulants, but also alcohol and opiates, as long as it believed drugging and intoxicating troops could help it achieve victory over the Allies. But the Nazis were less than diligent in monitoring side-effects like drug addiction and a decline in moral standards.

After it was first introduced into the market in 1938, Pervitin, a methamphetamine drug newly developed by the Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company, quickly became a top seller among the German civilian population. According to a report in the Klinische Wochenschrift (”Clinical Weekly”), the supposed wonder drug was brought to the attention of Otto Ranke, a military doctor and director of the Institute for General and Defense Physiology at Berlin’s Academy of Military Medicine. The effects of amphetamines are similar to those of the adrenaline produced by the body, triggering a heightened state of alert. In most people, the substance increases self-confidence, concentration and the willingness to take risks, while at the same time reducing sensitivity to pain, hunger and thirst, as well as reducing the need for sleep. In September 1939, Ranke tested the drug on 90 university students, and concluded that Pervitin could help the Wehrmacht win the war. At first Pervitin was tested on military drivers who participated in the invasion of Poland. Then, according to criminologist Wolf Kemper, it was “unscrupulously distributed to troops fighting at the front.”

Thirty-five million tablets

During the short period between April and July of 1940, more than 35 million tablets of Pervitin and Isophan (a slightly modified version produced by the Knoll pharmaceutical company) were shipped to the German army and air force. Some of the tablets, each containing three milligrams of active substance, were sent to the Wehrmacht’s medical divisions under the code name OBM, and then distributed directly to the troops. A rush order could even be placed by telephone if a shipment was urgently needed. The packages were labeled “Stimulant,” and the instructions recommended a dose of one to two tablets “only as needed, to maintain sleeplessness.”

Even then, doctors were concerned about the fact that the regeneration phase after taking the drug was becoming increasingly long, and that the effect was gradually decreasing among frequent users. In isolated cases, users experienced health problems like excessive perspiration and circulatory disorders, and there were even a few deaths. Leonardo Conti, the German Reich’s minister of health and an adherent of Adolf Hitler’s belief in asceticism, attempted to restrict the use of the pill, but was only moderately successful, at least when it came to the Wehrmacht. Although Pervitin was classified as a restricted substance on July 1, 1941, under the Opium Law, ten million tablets were shipped to troops that same year.

Pervitin was generally viewed as a proven drug to be used when soldiers were likely to be subjected to extreme stress. A memorandum for navy medical officers stated the following: “Every medical officer must be aware that Pervitin is a highly differentiated and powerful stimulant, a tool that enables him, at any time, to actively and effectively help certain individuals within his range of influence achieve above-average performance.”

“Their spirits suddenly improved”

The effects were seductive. In January 1942, a group of 500 German soldiers stationed on the eastern front and surrounded by the Red Army were attempting to escape. The temperature was minus 30 degrees Celsius. A military doctor assigned to the unit wrote in his report that at around midnight, six hours into their escape through snow that was waist-deep in places, “more and more soldiers were so exhausted that they were beginning to simply lie down in the snow.” The group’s commanding officers decided to give Pervitin to their troops. “After half an hour,” the doctor wrote, “the men began spontaneously reporting that they felt better. They began marching in orderly fashion again, their spirits improved, and they became more alert.”

It took almost six months for the report to reach the military’s senior medical command. But its response was merely to issue new guidelines and instructions for using Pervitin, including information about risks that barely differed from earlier instructions. The “Guidelines for Detecting and Combating Fatigue,” issued June 18, 1942, were the same as they had always been: “Two tablets taken once eliminate the need to sleep for three to eight hours, and two doses of two tablets each are normally effective for 24 hours.”

Toward the end of the war, the Nazis were even working on a miracle pill for their troops. In the northern German seaport of Kiel, on March 16, 1944, then Vice-Admiral Hellmuth Heye, who later became a member of parliament with the conservative Christian Democratic party and head of the German parliament’s defense committee, requested a drug “that can keep soldiers ready for battle when they are asked to continue fighting beyond a period considered normal, while at the same time boosting their self-esteem.”

A short time later, Kiel pharmacologist Gerhard Orzechowski presented Heye with a pill code-named D-IX. It contained five milligrams of cocaine, three milligrams of Pervitin and five milligrams of Eukodal (a morphine-based painkiller). Nowadays, a drug dealer caught with this potent a drug would be sent to prison. At the time, however, the drug was tested on crew members working on the navy’s smallest submarines, known as the “Seal” and the “Beaver.”

Alcohol consumption was encouraged

Alcohol, the people’s drug, was also popular in the Wehrmacht. Referring to alcohol, Walter Kittel, a general in the medical corps, wrote that “only a fanatic would refuse to give a soldier something that can help him relax and enjoy life after he has faced the horrors of battle, or would reprimand him for enjoying a friendly drink or two with his comrades.” Officers would distribute alcohol to their troops as a reward, and schnapps was routinely sold in military commissaries, a policy that also had the happy side effect of returning soldiers’ pay to the military.

“The military command turned a blind eye to alcohol consumption, as long as it didn’t lead to public drunkenness among the troops,” says Freiburg historian Peter Steinkamp, an expert on drug abuse in the Wehrmacht.

But in July 1940, after France was defeated, Hitler issued the following order: “I expect that members of the Wehrmacht who allow themselves to be tempted to engage in criminal acts as a result of alcohol abuse will be severely punished.” Serious offenders could even expect “a humiliating death.”

But the temptations of liquor were apparently more powerful that the Fuehrer’s threats. Only a year later, the commander-in-chief of the German military, General Walther von Brauchitsch, concluded that his troops were committing “the most serious infractions” of morality and discipline, and that the culprit was “alcohol abuse.” Among the adverse effects of alcohol abuse he cited were fights, accidents, mistreatment of subordinates, violence against superior officers and “crimes involving unnatural sexual acts.” The general believed that alcohol was jeopardizing “discipline within the military.”

According to an internal statistic compiled by the chief of the medical corps, 705 military deaths between September 1939 and April 1944 could be linked directly to alcohol. The unofficial figure was probably much higher, because traffic accidents, accidents involving weapons and suicides were frequently caused by alcohol use. Medical officers were instructed to admit alcoholics and drug addicts to treatment facilities. According to an order issued by the medical service, this solution had “the advantage that it could be extended indefinitely.” Once incarcerated in these facilities, addicts were evaluated under the provisions of the “Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases,” and could even be subjected to forced sterilization and euthanasia.

 

Executing a bootlegger

The number of cases in which soldiers became blind or even died after consuming methyl alcohol began to increase. From 1939 on, the University of Berlin’s Institute of Forensic Medicine consistently listed methyl alcohol as the leading factor in deaths resulting from the inadvertent ingestion of poisons.

The execution of a 36-year-old officer in Norway in the fall of 1942 was intended to set an example. The officer, who was a driver, had sold five liters of methyl alcohol, which he claimed was 98 percent alcohol and could be used to produce liquor, to an infantry regiment’s anti-tank defense unit. Several soldiers fell ill, and two died. The man, deemed an “enemy of the people,” was executed by a firing squad. According to the daily order issued on October 2, 1942, “the punishment shall be announced to the troops and auxiliary units, and it shall be used as a tool for repeated and insistent admonishment.”

But soldiers apparently felt that anything that could help them escape the horrors of war was justifiable. Despite general knowledge of the risks involved, morphine addiction became widespread among the wounded and medical personnel during the course of the war. Four times as many military doctors were addicted to morphine by 1945 than at the beginning of the war.

Franz Wertheim, a medical officer who was sent to a small village near the Western Wall on May 10, 1940, wrote the following account: “To help pass the time, we doctors experimented on ourselves. We would begin the day by drinking a water glass of cognac and taking two injections of morphine. We found cocaine to be useful at midday, and in the evening we would occasionally take Hyoskin,” an alkaloid derived from some varieties of the nightshade plant that is used as a medication. Wertheim adds: “As a result, we were not always fully in command of our senses.”

 

German doctors experimented on themselves

To prevent an “outbreak of morphinism, as occurred after the last war,” Professor Otto Wuth, a master sergeant and consulting psychiatrist to the military’s senior medical command, wrote a “Proposal to Combat Morphinism” in February 1941. Under Wuth’s proposal, all wounded who became addicted as a result of treatment were to be centrally recorded and reported to the “District Medical Board,” where they would be either legally provided with morphine or routinely examined and sent to drug rehabilitation treatment centers. “In this manner,” Wuth concluded, “morphine addicts will be recorded and monitored, and the entire group will be prevented from becoming criminal.”

The Nazi leadership was more lenient with those who became drug-addicted as a result of the war than with alcoholics, probably because the Wehrmacht was concerned that it could be sued for damages, because it was in fact responsible for dispensing the drugs in the first place.

As time goes by there seems to be a growing trend amongst those people lucky enough to afford it / mental enough to spend all available cash on it: home cinemas. Huge screens, incredible sound systems and luxurious seats are popping up in seemingly spare rooms and basements larger than my entire flat.

However this is also giving a few movie geeks a real chance to shine and it seems they’re not content with a simple in-home movie theater decent enough to hold a premiere in - they clearly want to be fully immersed in the worlds created by their favourite films.

So, in no particular order, here are 10 of the best themed home cinemas on earth…

1. Indiana Jones Cinema

This amazing indy-themed room was designed by home theatre expert doug charrois for larry and colleen halliday in canada. The room even features replicas of the holy grail, a jacket, hat, whips, torches and more—including the idol from the opening of the original movie.

2. The Batcave

Above is possibly the sleekest home theatre i’ve ever seen. It was created by canadian-based experts “elite home theater seating”, who, as the name suggests, specialize in hand-made, custom home theater furniture for “high-end” clientele. And Bruce Wayne.

3. The Enterprise ncc-1701d Cinema

Based on starship enterprise ncc-1701d, this stunner consists of a cinema, bar area and apparently ‘one of the largest kaleidoscope hard-drive based storage systems in a residential installation. At last count, there were eight servers with 3,816 DVD’s. There’s even a red alert button which brings on red flashing lights and appropriately tense music.

4. The Bridge

Trekkie gary reighn decided to cut out the middle man and design & build his home cinema himself on a relatively small budget of $15?000. His basement was cleared to make way for the creation and from start to finish took 2 years.

5. Evergreen Ultimate Theater

Apparently one of the most technically and structurally advanced private theaters in the united states, this phenomenal star trek home cinema even contains motorised sliding doors, as requested by the unbelievably rich client who paid around $3?000?000 in total for the transformation.

6. Titanic

The ceiling dome in this titanic themed set-up contains 1?230 fiber optic light strands in order to provide the artificial night sky and entry to the luxurious bar next door can be found behind a motorised bookcase. The whole project was designed by donny hackett of casa cinema design.

7. The Death Star

It doesn’t get much cooler than this. the 10-seat death star home cinema was designed for vic wertz and lisa stevens and includes, amongst other things: automatic doors, a twinkling fiber optic star field and a thx sound system. The best fact? The room was designed by doug chiang, lead designer on episodes I & II.

8. The Nautilus

This beauty was built as a result of film geek randy moran’s love of the nautilus submarine from the film 20?000 leagues under the sea. He hired Dillon Works inc to build and fabricate all the trusses, wall panels, screen frames, and portholes and ‘acoustic innovations’ to supply the plush red seating.

9. The Pirate Cove

The pirate cove was created as a result of avs forum user pkonold’s love of the pirates of the carribean disney ride and movies. To make the atmosphere as authentic as possible he and his wife ensured that when seated “you feel like you are floating down “the bayou” at night. to accomplish this we have built a star field in the ceiling, complete with real constellations and shooting stars!”.

10. The Sci-Fi Cinema

OK, so the screen isn’t the biggest and the seats are slightly lacking but inside Dr. David Winn’s home cinema can be found: a hydraulic alien bursting through the wall, a talking Robbie the robot and both the predator and the creature from the black lagoon behind bars. the cinema, including all collectibles, cost approximately $100?000.

1. Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World

Christine Fitzgerald, a confidante of Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that Diana told her that the Royal Family were Reptilian aliens, and that they could shapeshift.

David Icke’s –BBC reporter– claims that humanity is actually under the control of dinosauroid-like alien reptiles who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.
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You can Hypnotize Chickens

A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trance by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken.

If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remain immobile for somewhere between 15 seconds to 30 minutes, continuing to stare at the line.

You can have an erection once dead

A death erection (sometimes referred to as “angel lust”) is a post-mortem erection which occurs when a male individual dies vertically or face-down – the cadaver remaining in this position. During life, the pumping of blood by the heart ensures a relatively even distribution around the blood vessels of the human body. Once this mechanism has ended, only the force of gravity acts upon the blood. As with any mass, the blood settles at the lowest point of the body and causes edema or swelling to occur; the discoloration caused by this is called lividity.
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Your hand can have a life of it’s own

Alien hand syndrome (or Dr. Strangelove syndrome) is an unusual neurological disorder in which one of the sufferer’s hands seems to take on a life of its own.

AHS is best documented in cases where a person has had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically separated, a procedure sometimes used to relieve the symptoms of extreme cases of epilepsy. It also occurs in some cases after other brain surgery, strokes, or infections. The HAND is after you!

Don’t laugh too much, it can kill you

Fatal hilarity is death as a result of laughter. In the third century B.C. the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs (hey, it wasn’t THAT funny).

On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King’s Lynn, England, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode “Kung Fu Kapers” in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of “Hoots-Toot-ochaye”. After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell’s final moments so pleasant.

A weapon could make you Gay

Gay bomb is an informal name for a potential non-lethal chemical weapon, which a U.S. Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing.

In one sentence of the document it was suggested that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause “homosexual behaviour”. So that’s how they got Saddam!

It’s true, Men can breastfeed

The phenomenon of male lactation in humans has become more common in recent years due to the use of medications that stimulate a human male’s mammary glands.

Male lactation is most commonly caused by hormonal treatments given to men suffering from prostate cancer. It is also possible for males (and females) to induce lactation through constant massage and simulated ’sucking’ of the nipple over a long period of time (months).

Bart Simpson’s Tomacco ( Half Tomato Half Tobacco) was possible

A tomacco is originally a fictional hybrid fruit that is half tomato and half tobacco, from the 1999 episode “E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)” of The Simpsons; the method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional.

The tomacco became real when it was allegedly produced in 2003. Inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant, which was possible because both plants come from the same family.

It’s OK to have a third nipple

A supernumerary nipple (also known as a third nipple) is an additional nipple occurring in mammals including humans. Often mistaken for moles, supernumerary nipples are diagnosed at a rate of 2% in females, less in males. The nipples appear along the two vertical “milk lines” which start in the armpit on each side, run down through the typical nipples and end at the groin. They are classified into eight levels of completeness from a simple patch of hair to a milk-bearing breast in miniature.

You can die on the Toilet

There are many toilet-related injuries and some toilet-related deaths throughout history and in urban legends.

In young boys, one of the most common causes of genital injury is when the toilet seat falls down while using the toilet.

George II of Great Britain died on the toilet on 25 October 1760 from an aortic dissection. According to Horace Walpole’s memoirs, King George “rose as usual at six, and drank his chocolate; for all his actions were invariably methodic. A quarter after seven he went into a little closet. His German valet de chambre in waiting heard a noise, and running in, found the King dead on the floor.”

Picking one’s nose and eating it might be healthy

Mucophagy (literally mucus-eating, also referred as picking one’s nose and eating it) is the consumption of the nasal mucus, boogers, and other detritus obtained from nose-picking.

Some research suggests that mucophagy may be a natural and even healthy activity, which exposes the digestive system to bacteria accumulated in the mucus, thereby helping to strengthen the immune system.