INTERESTING 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 McLain are brother and sister.
11. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by rushing 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 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 De Vinci invented scissors. It took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it 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.
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.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the 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!
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.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail."
35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
36. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
37. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
38. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
39. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
40. The words *racecar,* *kayak* and *level* are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
41. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
42. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
43. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
44. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
45. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
46. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
47. A snail can sleep for three years.
48. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
49. An ostrich*s eye is bigger than its brain.
50. Babies are born without kneecaps They don*t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
51. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
52. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
53. If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
54. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
55. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
56. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
57. The average person*s left hand does 56% of the typing.
58. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
59. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
60. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
61. There are more chickens than people in the world.
62. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies* room during a dance.
63. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
