| May 02, 2006 |
| Things You Should Know but Probably Don't |
Too much has been going this past week. I figure it's the best time to throw in some cute trivia. I'll be back.
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 of the letter i is called a "title".
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) Forty percent 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 an albino.
9) Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
10) Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small dog.
11) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
12) Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
13) Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
14) Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
15) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
16) Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
17) A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
18) The mask use by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
19) By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
20) 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!
21) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
22) Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
23) Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
24) George Carlin said it best about Marha 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 Landentoo, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail!" |
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