Voice actor Mel Blanc, famous for voicing Bugs Bunny, recorded the first 60 episodes of The Flintstones while flat on his back after a car accident in 1961. The mic was hanging over his bed

Most false teeth are radioactive: they’re covered with a uranium additive to help them appear whiter

Even though Superman fought for “truth, justice and the American way”, the character was actually created by a Canadian — Toronto-born Joe Shuster

Waterbeds were invented in 1832 by Scottish surgeon Neil Arnott — but to improve his patients’ comfort, not to score them more middle-aged nookie

Street-food vendors in the Philippines and surrounding countries have a peculiar best-seller called balut. It’s a fertilised duck egg with a near-term duckling inside, boiled like an ordinary egg and eaten in the shell 

Californian angler Steve Wozniak is the first person in the world to hook 1000 different species of fish. He’s spent ten years in 63 countries pursuing his quest

The average price for a concert ticket in Australian is now $80.57

The latest bright idea in international eating circles is “blind dining”, where foodies order, are served and eat in complete darkness. One such venue opened in New York recently

Lexicographers working on the new Oxford English Dictionary have been chipping away at it for 21 years, and are still only up to the letter “R” 

A new Japanese “virtual dating” game on the Nintendo DS, Love Plus, has sold over 430,000 copies in its first year 

The average person now spends 150 minutes a day on the internet, 114 minutes watching television and 79 minutes listening to radio

Friday mornings see the most US bank heists, as it is usually payday and crooks figure they’ll get more loot

New Zealand is hit by 15,000 earth tremors a year

The NIST physics lab in Boulder, Colorado, is host to the world’s most precise clock — accurate to within a single second over 3.7 billion years 

In a recent US study, it was found that university girls consider their professors to be the most attractive and well-groomed men on campus 

The first product to ever have a bar code on its packaging was a packet of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum — placed at 8.01am, June 26, 1974

The world’s most expensive residential street is Severn Road on Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak. Each square-metre of real estate costs around $76,000

Students who use Facebook while they study achieve significantly lower grades (20 per cent lower) than those who do not, according to new research

Money does buy happiness — to a point. Overall satisfaction rises until your salary hits $85K, after which any subsequent pay rise makes little impact on your happiness, researchers claim

Babies, toddlers and preschool children who sleep less than ten hours a night are more likely to be overweight when they are older

People who live in cities are more likely to develop mental illnesses than those who live in rural areas 

African elephants are scared of ants, new research has claimed. The tenacious little critters have a tendency to crawl up and explore the elephants’ sensitive trunks

Hawaiian gamer Craig Smallwood is suing NCsoft, the makers of computer game Lineage II, claiming the game is so addictive that he’s unable to bathe, dress himself or wake up during the day. So far, he’s played for 20,000 hours — that’s 38 per cent of the year!

One-third of married people no longer fancy their partners as much as they used to before they tied the knot

In 1673, New York was briefly named New Orange by early Dutch settlers

The world’s first Backward Running Championship has been won by Irishman Garret Doherty in a time of six minutes and 30 seconds for the 1.6km course

Police in Zurich, Switzerland, are promoting “drive-in sex boxes” to give privacy to prostitutes. The metal spaces are just wide enough to park a car in 

The record speed for a unicycle from a standing start is 30kmh

The first ever aircraft-related crime took place in 1926 when gangsters in Illinois buzzed the hideout of a rival gang and dropped three bombs onto their house

US scientists are currently working to develop a gecko-inspired textile that could one day allow humans to scale sheer surfaces

When Britain developed the world’s first tanks during WWI, they used the term “tank” because it didn’t mean anything suspicious and didn’t give the Germans a clue as to the vehicle’s power

A man’s brain is just two per cent of his bodyweight

Sonya Thomas took just 12 minutes to down 181 chicken wings, totalling 2.2 kilos

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