A haphazard collection of interesting, though  unverified,
untested, unsupported and unsubstantiated facts, hastily
and uncritically gathered by HFH's overworked
editorial researchers in 2002.  

Magnetic West, less well-known than magnetic north, is located in a seedy motel room in Gallup, New Mexico.

A little-known federal government program from the 1970s that created a National Strategic Yogurt Reserve is still being funded.

 Though donkeys can read our minds, it is fortunate for us they don’t know what to do with the information because they really aren’t very smart.  

Though government authorities unequivocally deny it, it's relatively easy to spot the extraterrestrial observers who walk among us –  they are the ones who never sneeze.

 The Gnostics of the First Century A.D. believed the world was run by an overworked mid-level deity distracted by personal
 
problems, such as his mortgage, chronic gout and fruitless search for the right high-yield pension portfolio.

In 18th-century France, a prisoner known as the Man In the Cardboard Mask wore this shroud while incarcerated for over 25 years.

No one is sure why he simply didn't rip the flimsy device off, or why he never escaped, since the bars of his dungeon were also made of cardboard. 

Aztec dentists mixed iron filings, water and navel lint, which was baked in a kiln to create a powerful magnetic dental bonding agent used to seal cavities.

Patients reported not only relief from toothaches, but also the development of a keen sense of direction. 

Satan worshippers use many devices to commune with the Lord of Darkness. Meeting in a forest at midnight on Halloween, one small sect attached jumper cables from a car battery to a goat to evoke the power of Beelzebub. After the black mass was concluded, the battery retained enough charge to start the group’s SUV for the return of the six Fortune-500 CEOs to their offices by the next morning.

Besides the name “van,” Ludwig van Beethoven and Vincent van Gogh shared another characteristic. The former composed many of his greatest symphonies while suffering from failing hearing and, eventually, total deafness. The latter crafted some of his greatest paintings after losing one of his ears.

Along with the famous visit of the three kings to the manger where baby Jesus lay on Christmas Day is the lesser-known visit of the three queens, Candi Kiss, Bunny Luv and Miss Tulips, who represented transgender sex workers from Bethlehem’s notorious “combat zone.”