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. 
Amadillos 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 as 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.