Not so fun fact... I had one hit my plate glass window last week and died.  I can vouch, they do have feet :)  I was amazed by the size of it in my hand, poor little thing I really did feel bad.

Fun fact: Hummingbirds belong to the avian order Apodiformes, which comes from the Greek "a", meaning without, and "pod", meaning feet. Their feet are so tiny that the first ancient naturalists to see them thought they didn't have feet at all.

I've seen them once or twice with the Asian decor at World Market, that might be worth a look if you have one locally.

Once in a while, the little Japanese restaurant by my office has them in the gift shop; apparently the college kids tend to snap them up quickly because they're very amused by the traditional oversized testicles.

I've seen this before. It's interesting what people used to tout as good for you. Cigarettes, for example, were endorsed by doctors. When I was a kid I remember ashtrays in the waiting room and outside the elevator in the hospital. Shoot, I remember even in the mid 1990's when I worked in a factory shortly after graduating high school I could smoke right at my station. Whether my co-workers smoked or not wasn't even an issue. I quit 10 years ago this month, actually. Yay me!

On the subject of radium. Ever heard of the radium girls? They worked in a watch factory making watches with glow in the dark dials for the military around WWI. They would "lick" or put the brush between their lips to make it a fine point in between painting the dials with glow in the dark paint made with radium. They of course got sick, but the whole thing led to changes in labor laws regarding illness caused by occupational hazards. 

Wonderful list, but almost impossible to fulfill.  I started following some of the sideline stories, did you see the rescued hummingbird ?