to increase the number of females playing the arcade game Street Fighter Alpha 2, Capcom Entertainment made a character resembling Sailor Moon. However, this plan backfired, as it actually increase the number of male players playing the Sailor Moon character.

• when polar bears stalk seals, they cover their black noses with their paws to camouflage it better in the snowy terrain

• Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• the word "quiz" is worth 22 points in Scrabble without any bonuses.

• DC comics created an enemy for Batman called "The Ten Eyed Man". After being blinded from an explosion during a bank robbery, (He's the night watchman...) doctors connected his optic nerves to his fingertips. He blames Batman for his condition.

• the government in Malaysia proposed that students in primary and secondary schools be given crew cuts, to help identify students who leave school to skip.

• Danny Jones, who caught the 500th homerun ball of Baltimore's Eddie Murray sold it to a guy for $500 000.

• Gillian Anderson was born on August 9

• turkeys and dates are good laxatives.

• The gross domestic Product of Hungary in 1994 was 2,093 forints of which 20.4 % agriculture represented, and 35.5% industry represented.

Yasmine Bleeth, from the dramatic show Baywatch, cheated on her written driver's test

former Baywatch star, David Charvet, revealed that he doesn't like the beach

• Mechanical refridgeration Systems were 1st patented in 1834

• When Wile E. Coyote falls off a cliff he falls an average 250 metres.

• Krusty the Klown made $385 382.35 in the Car Sick kids Telethon.

• Japan is so hygiene-concious that there is an increase for products such as sanitary saxophones and antiseptic bicycle grips.

• Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank opened a "total anti-grem branch" in which the surfaces of ATMs and credit cards are laminated with antibacterial plastics

• for the first time, overweight people outnumber normal-sized ones in the United States

• trumpets, trombones and French horns tend to push the front teeth back

• clarinets and saxophones tend to push the front teeth out.

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