Far from being the popular children's Christmas present it is today, the early editions of The Guinness Book of Records contained some rather unwholesome facts, including details concerning the Eggiest Fart, Easiest Woman, and Most Troublesome Bowels.

Back in the days when real people were used by kings as chess pieces and executed when taken by an opponent's piece, when a pawn made it to the other side of the board and was promoted to a queen, they would give him a sex-change operation. This is how gender reassignment surgery was first invented.

Milk contains uniquley advanced organisms that actually feel pain.