Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2)Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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