Has anybody noticed...?

Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

If you remove the pip from an olive, it will lose its taste.

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.

Dang, no baseball bat?

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would
find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....
and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. 

In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

I bet you're one of the 9 people.

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

No wonder I'm so short!

If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.

Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.