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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's 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.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both horse's 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.
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. (Error here, Sleeping Beauty also has both parents surviving in the film.)
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.
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.
"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.
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 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.
Edwin Rommel of Utica, New York, collected 1 million pennies. He started his collection in 1958 and completed it in 1978.
The ancient Egyptians considered red hair to be unlucky.
A light year-year, or the distance traveled by light in one year, is 5,880,000,000,000 miles.
The road mileage from Los Angeles, California to New York City is 2,825 miles.
In all his plays and poems, William Shakespeare never used the word "sneeze".
The apple is a member of the rose family.
The Home Insurance Building of Chicago was the first skyscraper built in the United States. It was 10 stories tall.
The average "circulation life" of a dollar bill is about one year.
The male lion sleeps or rests about 20 hours a day.
An average hen in the United States lays about 240 eggs a year.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll is the name of a town in Wales.
One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds.
The word "muscle" comes from the Latin word "musculus" meaning "little mouse."
The letters of the word "united" can be rearranged to spell a word with the opposite meaning--"untied"
A planet that is nearer to the sun than the Earth is known in astronomy as an inferior planet.
There is a town in California named You Bet.
A bicycle in the 1860's cost at least $300.
Judy Garland's real name was Frances Gumm.
Chop suey was invented in the United States, not in China.
It would take between 40 to 50 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
There are 12 pints of blood in the average human body.
The study of caves is known as speleology.
Although lobsters walk forward head first, they swim backwards.
The only duty relegated to the vice president of the United States by the Constitution is to act as the presiding officer of the Senate.
Film star Tuesday Weld was born on a Friday.
5,363,222,357 x 2,071,723 = 11,111,111,111,111,111,111
Americans eat about 27 billion pounds of beef in a single year.
The abbreviation ZIP (of the United States Post Office) stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan".
If you live to be 70 years old, you will have spent about three solid months of your lifetime brushing your teeth.
The owl is the only bird that has both eyes in the front of its head.
Oscar Levant once said, "Half my friends dislike me, the other half despise me."
Kardivilliwarrakurrakurrieapparlarndoo is the name of a lake in northern Australia.
The eye of the camel is protected by three eyelids.
"Wet Stew" reads the same forward and backward.
Dikephobia means "fear of justice."
A spermologist collects trivia.
American's spend more than $350 million a year on toothpaste.
If you suffer from gephyrophobia, you are afraid of crossing bridges.
The oyster has no foot.
Triskaidekaphobia means the fear the number 13.
Until the early 1800's, people in the United States refused to eat tomatoes because they thought tomatoes were poisonous.
In New York City, it is against the law to open an umbrella in front of horse.
The average human being eats about 70 tons of food in a lifetime.
The "facetious" contains the vowels a, e, i, o, u in order.
You can take the dents out of Ping-Pong balls by boiling them in water.
Blood makes up one-thirteenth of the total weight of the average human body.
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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's 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.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both horse's 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.
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. (Error here, Sleeping Beauty also has both parents surviving in the film.)
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.
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.
"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.
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 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.
Edwin Rommel of Utica, New York, collected 1 million pennies. He started his collection in 1958 and completed it in 1978.
The ancient Egyptians considered red hair to be unlucky.
A light year-year, or the distance traveled by light in one year, is 5,880,000,000,000 miles.
The road mileage from Los Angeles, California to New York City is 2,825 miles.
In all his plays and poems, William Shakespeare never used the word "sneeze".
The apple is a member of the rose family.
The Home Insurance Building of Chicago was the first skyscraper built in the United States. It was 10 stories tall.
The average "circulation life" of a dollar bill is about one year.
The male lion sleeps or rests about 20 hours a day.
An average hen in the United States lays about 240 eggs a year.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll is the name of a town in Wales.
One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds.
The word "muscle" comes from the Latin word "musculus" meaning "little mouse."
The letters of the word "united" can be rearranged to spell a word with the opposite meaning--"untied"
A planet that is nearer to the sun than the Earth is known in astronomy as an inferior planet.
There is a town in California named You Bet.
A bicycle in the 1860's cost at least $300.
Judy Garland's real name was Frances Gumm.
Chop suey was invented in the United States, not in China.
It would take between 40 to 50 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
There are 12 pints of blood in the average human body.
The study of caves is known as speleology.
Although lobsters walk forward head first, they swim backwards.
The only duty relegated to the vice president of the United States by the Constitution is to act as the presiding officer of the Senate.
Film star Tuesday Weld was born on a Friday.
5,363,222,357 x 2,071,723 = 11,111,111,111,111,111,111
Americans eat about 27 billion pounds of beef in a single year.
The abbreviation ZIP (of the United States Post Office) stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan".
If you live to be 70 years old, you will have spent about three solid months of your lifetime brushing your teeth.
The owl is the only bird that has both eyes in the front of its head.
Oscar Levant once said, "Half my friends dislike me, the other half despise me."
Kardivilliwarrakurrakurrieapparlarndoo is the name of a lake in northern Australia.
The eye of the camel is protected by three eyelids.
"Wet Stew" reads the same forward and backward.
Dikephobia means "fear of justice."
A spermologist collects trivia.
American's spend more than $350 million a year on toothpaste.
If you suffer from gephyrophobia, you are afraid of crossing bridges.
The oyster has no foot.
Triskaidekaphobia means the fear the number 13.
Until the early 1800's, people in the United States refused to eat tomatoes because they thought tomatoes were poisonous.
In New York City, it is against the law to open an umbrella in front of horse.
The average human being eats about 70 tons of food in a lifetime.
The "facetious" contains the vowels a, e, i, o, u in order.
You can take the dents out of Ping-Pong balls by boiling them in water.
Blood makes up one-thirteenth of the total weight of the average human body.
