Trivia
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula."
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- 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.
- If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
- 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.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- 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.
- 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.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
- 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.
- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.