According to Ultra Violet's book Famous For 15 Minutes, Salvador Dali once employed a lobster during foreplay. 

After a train killed P. T. Barnum's star circus performer in 1885, the great showman had his skin and bones mounted separately, enabling him to exhibit the "world's largest elephant" in two places at once.

When NASA needed to protect the space shuttle from woodpeckers, an employee was sent to WalMart. The solution? Six plastic owls.

After a cow licked a bald farmer's head, his wife said his hair was growing back. When news got out, bald men were lining up to get licked by cows.

Zookeepers at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, were suprised when their "male orangutan" Eric gave birth. Eric was re-named Erica and plans were scrapped... to lend "him" out for stud work.

While a Bayport, New York couple were on vacation, 20,000 bees colonized their home. The swarm, which buzzed so loud neighbors thought it was a plane, entered one by one through a half-inch hole.

To reduce its carbon footprint, Google periodically deploys a herd of goats instead of lawnmowers.

A Philippine drug dealer's lawyer told a court that 67 kilos of coke found in a chicken cage did not belong to his client. "The drugs were in the possession of a rooster and two hens," he said, "and the law is very clear that whoever is in possession of the drugs is the one who should be accused." The court disagreed.

After North Carolina hunters used 2,000-pound blocks of chocolate as bait, bears were seen acting "downright weird" and walking in circles "for no apparent reason."

In 2002, a Chinese peasant uncorked a liquor bottle and was bitten by the snake inside, which had been trapped for about a year. The porous stopper had allowed enough air into the bottle for the snake's survival.