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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW <br /><br />1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. <br /> <br /> 2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. <br /> <br /> 3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle". <br /> <br /> 4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up <br />and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. <br /> <br /> 5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. <br /> <br /> 6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. <br /> <br /> 7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. <br /> <br /> 8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He <br />was albino. <br /> <br /> 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, <br />daily. <br /> <br /> 10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. <br /> <br /> 11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few <br />ounces will kill a small sized dog. <br /> <br /> 12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the <br />shark's stomach from underneath, <br /> causing the shark to explode. <br /> <br /> 13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww). <br /> <br /> 14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't <br />wear pants. <br /> <br /> 15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. <br /> <br /> 16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' <br />because in the time when <br /> all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper <br />case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored <br />the smaller, 'lower case' letters. <br /> <br /> 17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the <br />other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.) <br /> <br /> 18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War <br />II were made of wood. <br /> <br /> 19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. <br /> <br /> 20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was <br />never a recorded <br /> Wendy before! <br /> <br /> 21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, <br />purple, and silver! <br /> <br /> 22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years <br />to paint Mona Lisa's lips. <br /> <br /> 23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go <br />mad and sting itself to death. <br /> <br /> 24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was <br />a Captain Kirk mask painted white. <br /> <br /> 25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you <br />have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins <br />without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.) <br /> <br /> 26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't <br />sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.) <br /><br /> <br /> 27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, <br />which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider <br />than your thumb (sign of a true civilized society ... not.) <br /> <br /> 28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record <br />player for automobiles. <br /> At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, <br />so they called themselves Motorola. <br /> <br /> 29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a <br />piece of celery <br /> than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples! <br />(Guess what I'm buying <br /> on my next trip to the grocery store?) <br /> 30. Chewing gum while peeling onions <br /> will keep you from crying! <br /> <br /> 31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. <br /> <br /> 32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book <br />most often stolen from Public Libraries. <br /> <br /> 33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into <br />space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
