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 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.

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

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate
of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches
tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built
in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for
blacks and whites.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the 5 dollar bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in - dous: tremendous horrendous
stupendous and hazardous.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and
eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most
taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.

An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish havent got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Los Angeless full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. And
can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size L.A.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after
38 minutes.

A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was
spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English
language.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against
hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas is produced to
create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.

In most advertisements including newspapers the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capones business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home the stadium becomes the states
third largest city.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi
driver in Frank Capras Its A Wonderful Life.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the 1 encased in the
shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his
filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z hence Oz.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in
his pocket.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.