August 11, 2005

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  THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
  
  1. Money isn’t made out of paper,
  it’s made out of cotton.
  
  2. The Declaration of Independence was
  written on hemp 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 1830s 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, purple, and silver!
  
  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 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
  (sign of a true civilized society … not.)
  
  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! (Guess what I’m buying
  on my next trip to the grocery store?)
  
  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
  (families taking long car trips should adopt
  this same policy.)

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