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 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 housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.


 If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon
 will be about three statute miles away.

 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 its plural,
 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

 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 it's brain.

 Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

 The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane
 Fonda movie "Barbarella.

 Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

 Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig
 farmers to use as feed.  Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor:
 Mint Oreo.

 The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican
 National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden
 voyage of the RMS Titanic.

 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's
 assassin  John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for
 ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 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.

 The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
 fathered over 160 children.

 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.

 Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they
 rode past their king.  This custom has become the modern military salute.

 White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the
 Monkees)

 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.

 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.

 Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it
 has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls
 off the twentieth floor.  It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat
 to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.


 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."

 A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the
 background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are
 actually talking.

 The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
 stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
 thumb.

 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.

 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 bedframe.
 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.

		

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