Now, once again, The (Jock) Show loudly presents "BELIEVE IT OR SIT ON IT! Another strange but useless fact presented as a public disservice:

There is no such thing as a male chauvinist seahorse. That's right. Among seahorses the MALE gets pregnant. The female lays the eggs but the male has the babies. To learn more, ask your librarian for a book on seahorse sex.

Rats do NOT like cheese. A recent rat study shows rats love walnuts and gumdrops. In fact, for a gumdrop, the average rat would volunteer for Canadian research.

Stalagmites grow UP and stalactites grow DOWN. This information could be vital if you're ever lost in a cave with a curious Cub Scout.

Footballs are not made of pigskin. They're made from cowhide. Fortunately for sports reporters, neither pigs, cows, nor sports fans worry that much about accuracy.

It's easy to tell a male black widow spider from a female black widow spider. If it stings you and you die, it's female. Thus, male black widow spiders make the best pets.

There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. If you don't believe it, count them.

It takes 400 cocoa beans to make just one pound of chocolate. And it takes just one pound of chocolate to make 400 pimples.

Banana oil does not come from bananas. It comes from petroleum. So you can stop squeezing your bananas.

Americans consume over 200,000 tons of popcorn each year. Which just goes to prove that Orville Reddenbacker was a lot smarter than he looked.

During the average major league baseball season, 1,873 fans get hit in the head with a bag of peanuts.

In the U.S. it is illegal to carry a pig that has not been tattooed across a state line. For details, contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Inspection Service, Pig Tattoo Division.

The Lord's Prayer contains 56 words; the Ten Commandments, 297 words; the Declaration of Independence, 300 words; and a government directive on exporting duck eggs -- 26,991 words.

The Statue of Liberty's nose is 4-feet, 6-inches long. But that does not confirm the rumor that she's related to Barbra Streisand.

Had singer Janis Joplin lived, the state of Missouri planned to name a city in her honor. Which explains why, to this day, Janis, Missouri, has no post office.