1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks
or it will digest itself.
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. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and
cannot find a
mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red
car can be seen
in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong
parents daily!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn't
wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out
during World War
II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first
four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme
with orange,
purple and silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter
Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on
Berlin in World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will
instantly
go
mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to
slow film down so
you
could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce
Springsteen's "Born in
the USA".
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your
back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more
calories to eat a piece
of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie
Chaplin
look-alike
contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you
from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear
Watson".
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it
illegal for a woman
to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for
being the book
most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before
they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!