Some trivia items for you this morning.
* Stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* White Out was invented by the mother of the Monkee's Michael Nesmith.
* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
* In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
* Frank Sinatra never owned a pair of Levis.
* If a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about 30 percent less chance of surviving than a cat falling off the twentieth floor. It takes about eight floors for a cat to realize what is happening, relax, and correct itself.
* Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
* The Monongahela River's name translated into English means "high banks breaking off and falling down in places."
* A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678,987,654,321.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
* Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
* "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. The ammo belts for .50 caliber machine guns measured exactly 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
* The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
* A "jiffy" is the name for an actual unit of time--1/100th of a second.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
* The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
* The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
* The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
* Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
* Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. That's how we got the modern military salute.
* Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula."
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
* A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.