Important Info......
Little Known Facts
1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
2. . Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the
soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers
wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated
ever since.
3. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
4. Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University. (but you
knew that didn't you)
5. Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the
ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used
a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible
in many places refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.
6. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.
7. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the
expression 'to get fired.'
8. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
9. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,
but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
10. 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
11. The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WWII fighter pilots in the
South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being
loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a
target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.'
12. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins,
'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'
13. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
14. The 'y' in signs reading 'ye olde..' is properly pronounced with a
'th' sound, not 'y'. The 'th' sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient
Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune 'thorn' to represent
'th' sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from
the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case 'y'.
15. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are
radioactive so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
17. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was
changed in the 1600s by a translator.
18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
19. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.'
20. Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
21. Captain Kirk never said 'Beam me up, Scotty,' but he did say, 'Beam
me up, Mr. Scott'.
22. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by
a lightning strike.
23. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
24. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
25. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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