False Facts 18

President Richard Nixon was an avid CB radio user.

Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.

In an eighteen month period in 1973-1974, since there was renovation work on the Capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota, state government was actually run out of an office building in River Falls, Wisconsin.

British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Staffordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.

Rosie O'Donnell was recently offered $1,000,000 to pose nude for Playboy.

The egg of a hummingbird will actually float in mid-air in foggy conditions.

In the northern hemisphere, water goes down the drain clockwise. In the southern hemisphere - counterclockwise. On the equator, water flows both ways, depending on the moon's phases.

Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench sleeps in the crouching position.

Osama Bin Laden had seen Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" 15 times.

Studies show newborns will recognize their mother's face more readily if their mother wears sunglasses.

The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.

Male ladybugs always have an odd number of spots, and one spot will always be white.

The record for most appearances on the cover of Time Magazine is 26 by Tom Arnold.

Evian water got its name from the first founder of the company, who remarked, "People have got to be really naive to buy bottled water". The name stuck; Evian is naive backwards.

From 1990 through 1992, the penny actually showed Abraham Lincoln with a mustache but no beard.

A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.

When you flip the 2005 Minnesota statehood quarter, heads will come up 61% of the time instead of the expected 50%.