interesting but useless info

[Wade Joseph]

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T...

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. < BR>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 and grapes will cause damage

to their kidneys.

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 wit h 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 oldEnglish

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 a llowed 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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Cliff Claven

[cylinder]

Some true, some not. It is interesting though.