1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out
of
cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written
on hemp marijuana
(paper.)
3. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a
'tittle.'
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down continuously
from the bottom of the glass to the
top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller
...
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales
of Happy
Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster 's 1996 Dictionary
were
misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor,
who had red eyes. He was
albino.
9. On
average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong
parents,
daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are
brother and
sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous
system; a few ounces will kill a small-sized
dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing
up into the shark's stomach from underneath,
causing the shark to
explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales
(eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear
pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in
the 1830's as
medicine.
16. 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
smaller, 'lower case'
letters.
17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with
one hand and draw with the other at the same
time, hence multi-tasking was
invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given
out during World War II were made of
wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling
casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book
Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy
before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that
rhyme with: orange and
purple.
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented
scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa 's
lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will
make it instantly go mad and sting itself to
death
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the
original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask
painted
white..
25. If you have three
quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money
in coins without being able to make change for a
dollar (good to
know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on
your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you
thought this list was completely
useless.)
27. 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.
28. The first product Motorola started to
develop was a record player for automobiles At
that time, the most known player on the market
was the Victrola, so they called themselves
Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more
calories to eat a piece of celery than the
celery has in it to begin with. It's the
same
with
apples.
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep
you from
crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is
certified
kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record
for being the book most often stolen from Public
Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans
before they go into space because passing wind
in a space suit damages
it.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha
Stewart, "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's
behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are
still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too,
but they take the ONE woman in America willing
to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they
haul her off to jail."
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