More Interesting Facts

"More Interesting Facts"

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. (Wait, what about Sleeping
Beauty, which also has both parents surviving in the film?)

'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.

  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!"

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early
mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope
stretched across the bed frame. 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.

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.
(I don't want to know how they found this out - LadyHawke)

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.

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."
Received on Thu Jun 24 09:41:49 2004