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

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

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.

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.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they
rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military
salute.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same
sex.

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!"

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 was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about
because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three
dogs (dingoes, actually) to keep from freezing.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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.

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