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Things You Might Not Have Known

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 light posts 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.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!! >>

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