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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.
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The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
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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.
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"Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone" and
"hydroxydeoxycorticosterones" are the largest anagrams.
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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
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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.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.
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Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and
Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
gravity to swallow.
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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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".
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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.
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Armoured knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military
salute.
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Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his
famous transatlantic flight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney
cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout
themovie.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed
with only the left hand [on the QWERTY keyboard].
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A whale's penis is called a dork.
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Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always
all the same sex.
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Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get
leprosy.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs
into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
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Reindeer like to eat bananas.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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Twelve or more cows are known as a flink.
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A group of frogs is called an army.
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A group of rhinos is called a crash.
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A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
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A group of whales is called a pod.
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A group of geese is called a gaggle.
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A group of ravens is called a murder.
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A group of officers is called a mess.
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A group of larks is called an exaltation.
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A group of owls is called a parliament.
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Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles
known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for
Muster Mark!"
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the
balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones
used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation,
called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack
and break off... thus, the saying.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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The Sanskrit word for war means: "desire for more
cows".