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17 <h1 class="centered">Interesting and True</h1>
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28 <li>Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.</li>
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30 <li>If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000
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31 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends
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32 up on the bottom.</li>
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34 <li>The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.</li>
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36 <li>The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.</li>
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38 <li>A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.</li>
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40 <li>If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the
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41 horizon will be about three statute miles away.</li>
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43 <li>The longest word in the English language, according to the
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44 Oxford English Dictionary, is
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45 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word
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46 with the same amount of letters is
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47 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.</li>
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49 <li>Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are
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50 the largest anagrams.</li>
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52 <li>Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
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53 de los Angeles de Porciuncula."</li>
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55 <li>Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older</li>
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57 <li>An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.</li>
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59 <li>Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots</li>
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61 <li>The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the
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62 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.</li>
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64 <li>Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny
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67 <li>Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local
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68 pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one
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69 flavor: Mint Oreo.</li>
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71 <li>The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican
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72 National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the
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73 maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.</li>
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75 <li>Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
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78 <li>Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of
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79 Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the
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80 expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."</li>
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82 <li>The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
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85 <li>The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World
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86 War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.</li>
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88 <li>Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty
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89 Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.</li>
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91 <li>A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.</li>
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93 <li>111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321</li>
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95 <li>The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses
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96 II who fathered over 160 children.</li>
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98 <li>If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
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99 gravity to swallow.</li>
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101 <li>Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
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102 registered blood donors.</li>
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104 <li>The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
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105 Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A
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106 Wonderful Life"</li>
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108 <li>It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw
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109 up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
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110 out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of
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111 the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down
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114 <li>Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when
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115 they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern
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116 military salute.</li>
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118 <li>White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly
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119 of the Monkees)</li>
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121 <li>Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an
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122 Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six
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125 <li>Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his
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126 famous transatlantic flight.</li>
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128 <li>Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only
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129 write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.</li>
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131 <li>If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front
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132 legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one
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133 front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received
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134 in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person
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135 died of natural causes.</li>
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137 <li>Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only
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138 used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
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139 The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
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140 mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
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143 <li> In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
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146 <li> Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If
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147 captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map
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150 <li> The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.</li>
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152 <li>Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing
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153 the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it
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154 float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated,
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155 and it has floated ever since.</li>
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157 <li>Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a
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158 building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a
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159 cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about
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160 eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
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161 correct itself.</li>
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163 <li>The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off
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164 a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used
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165 in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid
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166 formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold
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167 outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.</li>
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169 <li>Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
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170 otherwise it will digest itself.</li>
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172 <li>The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."</li>
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174 <li>A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in
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175 the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are
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176 actually talking.</li>
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178 <li>The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law
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179 which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider
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180 than your thumb.</li>
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182 <li>101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney
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183 cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die
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184 throughout the movie.</li>
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186 <li>'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the
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189 <li>The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
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190 Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.</li>
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192 <li>A whale's penis is called a dork.</li>
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194 <li>Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all
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197 <li>Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get
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200 <li>To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into
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201 its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.</li>
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203 <li>Reindeer like to eat bananas.</li>
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205 <li>A group of unicorns is called a blessing.</li>
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207 <li>Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."</li>
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209 <li>A group of frogs is called an army.</li>
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211 <li>A group of rhinos is called a crash.</li>
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213 <li>A group of kangaroos is called a mob.</li>
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215 <li>A group of whales is called a pod.</li>
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217 <li>A group of geese is called a gaggle.</li>
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219 <li>A group of ravens is called a murder.</li>
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221 <li>A group of officers is called a mess.</li>
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223 <li>A group of larks is called an exaltation.</li>
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225 <li>A group of owls is called a parliament.</li>
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227 <li>Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known
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228 as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster
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231 <li>Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
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234 <li>The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early
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235 mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched
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236 across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.</li>
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238 <li>"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came
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239 about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed
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240 three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.</li>
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