Things You Might Not Have Known
This is something I recieved in a forward so I decided to put it up to amaze people.
- Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of muscles every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter “i” is called a title.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because the gas they release in a spacesuit damages the spacesuit.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
- Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small-sized dog.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- 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.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
- 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 slow film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of what they normally do.
- The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
- 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.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
- 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.
- Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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