*If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
*Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
*Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
*Elizabeth the !st of England, suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses), even though her nickname was the Red Rose of England.
*Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. They were also webbed.
*Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
*Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his Eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.
*Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
*Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
*The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
*Some 160,000 people attempt suicide every year in France.
*Chopin, the composer, wore a beard on only the left half of his face. He claimed that when he performed at the piano, the other side of his face didn't matter since the audience saw only one side.
*Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
*Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word. *Elivs had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
*US vice-president Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard.
*Murderer, John Horwood was hanged on April 13, 1821. His skin was used to bind a book describing the dissection of his body by surgeon Richard Smith.
*Dr. Suess wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than fifty different words.
*In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken by the law if the driver is either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.
*In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
*In California, it is illegal to peel an onion in a hotel room.
*In Michigan it is illegal for a woman to get her hair cut without her husband's permission.
*In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
*A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
*According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.
