• The world's largest fish stick, weighing just over 4 tons, was battered and fried in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1999 to commemorate Gorton's 150th anniversary.

• Horror author Stephen King has an intense fear of bunk beds due to a traumatic childhood incident.

• Nearly 50 percent of lottery tickets are sold to people living below the poverty line.

• On average, meals paid for with stolen credit cards tip only 1 percent, compared to 16 percent for legitimate payments.

• In a recent online poll by the popular UK newspaper The Guardian, the most popular name for the current decade is "the oh-ohs", playing on the common British word for zero. "The naughties" came in a distant second.