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Do You Know That .... ?
If you toss
a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,
but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it
ends up on the bottom
The glue on
Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The longest
word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary,is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only
other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its
plural. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and
hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
Los
Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
Only one
person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain.
Ben and
Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local
pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except
for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
Al Capone's
business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The longest
recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Wilma
Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty
Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
A pregnant
goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If NASA sent
birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity
to swallow.
Dueling is
legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
The
characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
It was
discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its
forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and
then swallows the stomach back down again. [Yum!]
Armored
knights raised their visors to identify themselves when
they rode past their king. This custom has become the
modern military salute.
Sylvia Miles
had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar
with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six
minutes.
Charles
Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his
famous transatlantic flight.
Goethe
couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only
write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his
desk
If a statue
in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has
one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four
legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
101
Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney
cartoon features with both parents that are present and
don't die throughout the movie.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word
that is typed with only the left hand [on the QWERTY
keyboard].
The Baby
Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Armadillos
have four babies at a time and they are always all the
same sex.
Armadillos
are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
To escape
the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into
its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
Reindeer
like to eat bananas.
A group of
unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows
are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called
an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A
group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of
whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a
gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A
group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks
is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a
parliament.
Physicist
Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as
quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks
for Muster Mark!"
Every time
you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase
"sleep tight" derives from the fact that early
mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope
stretched across the bed frame. A tight sleep was a
comfortable sleep.
"Three dog
night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about
because on especially cold nights these nomadic people
needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from
freezing.
Gilligan of
Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used
once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was
Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is
Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode
on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
In England,
the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Playing
cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If
captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to
reveal a map for escape.
Ivory bar
soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing
the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it
float.Customers wrote and told how much they loved that
it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Your stomach
has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
The Sanskrit
word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
Rubber bands
last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are
one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are
293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average
secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is
the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are
more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds
of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest
one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
All of the
clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in
the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver
or purple.
"Dreamt" is
the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are
members of the peach family.
Winston
Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the
only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are
only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous.
On an
American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and
a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's
impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant
squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The name for
Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and
saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz.
The
microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers
was an ordained minister.
John
Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average
person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are
336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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