interesting facts

[presto]

Non-dairy creamer is flammable!

When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing!" They actually pass out from sheer terror.

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 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

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. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celsius degrees.

During the Civil War, Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army before he accepted his post with the Confederacy.

Margaret Higgins Sanger, the birth-control pioneer, was one of eleven children.

There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice.

When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes.

And last, but not least...
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.