Six Utterly Absurd Things I Didn't Know

• Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov, Soviet politician and foreign minister denounced jazz and rock music at the Congress, warning against "wild cave-man orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges".
• Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy and first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893.
• The Victorian era parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them.
• There have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success.
• Umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women.
• Alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness.