Quotes from Jack Goldstein

We'll give you a hundred points if you can name Dumbledore's animagus form. No? It is a swan!

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes!

However, if one reads the verses carefully, I believe that it tells of how Job's soul - the bitter, angry part which wanted to curse God - was wrenched from him and became a being of its own.

If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.

soldiers made up an amazing ten per cent of the army's troops, the high command accepted they were wrong to

In another experiment in 1955, the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread; they got their data, and twelve innocent civilians died.

The wife of Emperor Claudius once got into an argument with a local prostitute as to who could get the most clients in a single night. She donned a wig and toga and went out to walk the streets. When the emperor found out he had her executed!

Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because chickens hadn't been invented back then!

your dog has a sense of smell around one hundred thousand times better than yours!

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

According to some reports, the crew of the Titanic didn't fire the correct distress signals after the ship's collision with the iceberg - instead they released flares at random. The message sent by the rockets was supposed to say 'distress' but in fact it signalled 'I'm having navigation problems; please stay clear'.

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Only two out of every ten men born in Russia in 1923 survived the Second World War.

For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia, killing victim after victim. After the body count had reached 300, the police had just about enough clues to identify the perpetrator, Pedro Lopez, and thankfully caught him. At his trial he pleaded insanity, and was sent to a mental asylum. Just four years later, doctors there declared Lopez sane and released him. His current whereabouts are unknown.

It has been proven that dogs can detect lung cancer by smelling a patient's breath, and can even smell early signs of cancer before medical experts can detect them.

with the message 'I shall never henceforward

believed them to be aggressors. He would also roam the castle at night, howling like a wolf, and often hid in corners due to his belief that he was made entirely out of glass and

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything else to eat. Amazingly, they can consume up to 95% of their own bodyweight and still survive.

possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

According to the latest study, more than half of all NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

Before producers decided to keep things simple and call the show Friends, they toyed with the idea of Friends Like Us (ok, that's not too bad), Six of One (what?), Across the Hall (logical I guess), Insomnia Café (no, just no) and Once Upon a Time in the West Village (amazing).

When the Mongols invaded India, one general built a pyramid in front of the walls of Delhi to terrify the remaining enemies into surrender. Pyramids aren't scary though, surely? Well, this one was, being made from ninety thousand human heads.

Some rather unusual sports have been featured in the Olympic Games

Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.