- 'Cocksucker Blues' was a 1976 film about The Rolling Stones.
- Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.
- Coffins which are due for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
- Colonel Potter, from the TV series M*A*S*H, was allergic to tomato juice.
- Colophony is a bow resin.
- Coloured diamonds are caused by impurities such as nitrogen (yellow), boron (blue). With red diamonds being due to deformities in the structure of the stone with green ones being the result of irradiation.
- Colour televisions are capable of producing only 3 colours, red, green and blue.
- Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.
- Comfrey (herb) baths were popular before the wedding night to attempt to repair the hymen and thereby apparently restore virginity.
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach once walked 230 miles to hear the organist at Lubeck in Germany.
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