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.

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 [on the QWERTY keyboard].

 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.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into
its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

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!"

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. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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.

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.
[how many cats did they kill to give us this info?]

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.

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.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out
of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when
they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military
salute.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an
Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six
minutes.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous
transatlantic flight.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but
the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.
The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic
stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to
prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and
been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from
Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye
gouging."  Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be
disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

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

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.