strange but true

#If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it winds up on the bottom.

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."

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

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

#Ben and Jerry's send 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 longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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

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

#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.

#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 unfold 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 a 30 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.

#Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it would digest itself.

#The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for cows."

#Most lipstick contains fish scales!

#Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!

#One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

#A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

#Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

#There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

#If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

#Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

#A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

#The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

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