Throwing the zloty
According to CNN (which got it from Die Welt), the 1-euro coin (like the 2-zloty coin before it) is more likely to come up on one side than the other if spun:
Polish mathematicians Tomasz Gliszczynski and WaclawZawadowski and their students at the Podlaska Academy in Siedlce spun one Belgian euro coin 250 times. . . . King Albert's head landed facing up 140 times.
"The euro is struck asymmetrically," [said] Gliszczynski, who teaches statistics. . . . "I know the phenomenon from other coins like the two zloty piece, which we have thrown more than 10,000 times."
Partly, I'm intrigued by the notion of a mathematically imbalanced coin; I tend to think of a coin flip as the canonical example of a random process, so finding out that one coin is asymmetrical feels a bit like the first time I learned there could be bugs in a compiler; it's a flaw in some fundamentally solid aspect of the world. Partly, I'm surprised to learn (from a paragraph I didn't quote) that spinning the coin in the air is more likely to be random than spinning it on a table. Partly, I'm amused at the notion of throwing a two-zloty piece more than 10,000 times. And partly, I find the word zloty inherently funny. I think it's mostly the zl at the beginning, though the rest of it helps.
Yes, I realize that this makes me terribly provincial (for thinking a word is funny just 'cause it doesn't conform to English spelling rules). But we knew that already.