Randomocity Extraordinaire05:12 Aug 24 2008
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things you night just not know ...
1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of
cotton
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp
(marijuana) 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 MacLaine are brother and
sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous
system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing 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 1830's 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 out
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 Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took
him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original
'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's 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 (good to know.)
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
most 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. I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.
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 fanny off to jail.'
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