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

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing
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. (It floats in gasoline, too.)

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a
building it has about thirty 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.

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off
a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones
used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid
formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold
outside, they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

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."