Little known fact: In sex scenes, actresses wear a patch over their naughty bits. It’s to prevent that pesky penis from actually getting where it’s pretending to go. For added protection the actor wears what is known in the industry as a “cock sock.” Picture those half-pantyhose your grandmother wears that bunch up around her ankles, but with a rubber band at the base of the cock. Now throw in some dry ice, crank up the slow jams, and you got yourself a bonafide Hollywood love scene. In 2004, I engaged in this most sacred and strange rite of passage on the set of a new show called Entourage.

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1. In 1985 a pregnant woman was wrongly accused of trying to shop lift a basketball.

2. More serial killers are truck drivers than any other occupation.

3. Diarehea is the leading cause of death in the world.

4. Falling coconuts kill 150 people a year.

5. Ted Bundy, one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, worked as a suicide hotline operator.

6. The higher the denomination of the bill, the worse it is to do cocaine through, because the ink content is higher, and the ink is toxic.

7. The expression “Rule of thumb” came about during the Middle Ages. There was a law stating that it was illegal for a man to beat his wife with a switch any thicker than the width of his thumb.

8. More incidents of domestic abuse are reported on Superbowl Sunday than on any other day of the year.

9. The recreational drug ‘ecstasy’ was sold as an over the counter anti-depressant in the 1980’s.

10. In 2004 a man placed an advertisement in the paper looking for someone to kill and cannibalize. A man answered the add. Before killing him, the man who placed the add castrated him and cooked his penis, which they ate together.

11. In Kentucky, it’s the law that every person must take at least one bath a year.

12. In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

13. A cockroach can live several weeks without its head. It starves to death.

14. A rat can fall fives stories without injury.

15. If you fart consistently for six years and nine months enough gas would be produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

16. Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runway to scare away the pigeons.

17. Boys with unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.

18. The average person spends three years of his/her life on the toilet.

19. 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

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