Interesting Facts

"Interesting Facts"

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.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of
a calorie.

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.

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.
Received on Wed Jun 23 09:23:59 2004