The Spanish city of Pamplona publishes safety guidelines each year for participants in the Running of the Bulls. Some quotations from the brochure include gems such as, "Do not stand still," or "making the run on a drunken spree is totally out of order." But potential participants should take special care, according to the guide, because "if you get up right in the path of the running bull, he could go through you as clean as a knife cuts through butter."

No American has died of old age since 1951. That's because the government eliminated that death-certificate classification that year.

American burials are responsible for depositing more than 827,000 gallons of embalming fluid into the soil each year. The fluid includes chemicals such as formaldehyde, methanol and ethanol.

F.H. Curis offered this advice for telling a bad egg in his 1891 publication, "The Comic Cookery Book:" "This depends entirely on what you wish to tell the egg. If it be bad news, break gently."

Hughie Jennings, who played professional baseball in the 1890s, holds the record for most times hit by a pitch: 287.

In a recent survey, 70 percent of Americans reported that they would not enjoy spending time with their own clone.