Things You Might Have Not Known
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Money
isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
The
57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the
company once had.
A
rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your
stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest
itself.
The
Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The
dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A
raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan
Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
A
female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A
duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A
2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
40%
of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every
person has a unique eye & tongue print.
The
"spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an
albino.
315
entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
During
the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the
distance.
On
average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.!
John
Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren
Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate
kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system.
A
few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel
Boone detested coonskin caps.
Playing
cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked
in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Most
lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas
(killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from
underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Donald
Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Dr.
Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.
Ketchup
was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
During
the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to
Honolulu
for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in
California
during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to
Hawaii for servicing.
American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served
in First Class.
Because
metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The
number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of
chess is 318,979,564,000.
Upper
and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because
in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the
lower case letters.
There
are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There
are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The
numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the
bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The
name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy
before.
The
very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
There
are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill.
Leonardo
Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
If
one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and
sting itself to death.
Bruce
Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his
moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
If
you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have $1.19. You would also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for
a dollar.
The
first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
The
mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The
original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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
first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.
At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called
themselves Motorola.
Roses
may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By
raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into
quicksand.
Casey
Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
Celery
has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the
celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie
Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and
Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than
100 years before either moon was discovered.
Chewing
gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock
Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
An
old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than
3 steps backwards while dancing.
Sharon
Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
The
glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen
from Public Libraries.
Astronauts
are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a
spacesuit damages them.
Back
in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100%
compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
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