Trivia

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. 

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 slightly more often.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. 


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 its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.


Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the 
longest anagrams.


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


Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 


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


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


The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 
Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.


Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono. 


Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig 
farmers to use as feed.  Pigs love the stuff, except for one 
flavor:
Mint Oreo.


The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican
National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the 
maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.


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


Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's
assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression 
for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."


The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. 


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


Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty 
Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.


A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 


111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 


If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need 
gravity to swallow.


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 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.


White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of 
the Monkees)


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.


Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only 
write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk. 


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.