Subject: trivia If you toss a penny 10,000 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 Los Angeles's full name is
"El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 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. 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. 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 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 it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's 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. 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 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan
(Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoons 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 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. 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. (finally we find out what this means)! "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. 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. [note from the editor: how many cats did they kill to give us this info] Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. [Yum! #2] The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." |