- - - you may not have known if it weren't for smart-a$$ friends who send
you such stuff!!

For those of you getting tired of reading about meds, etc. (or might
possibly get a spot on "Who wants to be a Millionaire?")


> (01) Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
>
Us kids thought Dad was made of money.

> (02) The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the
> number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
>
> (03) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
>
> (04) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every
> two weeks or it will digest itself.
>
> (05) The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp
> paper.
>
Did they roll up and smoke the copies with typos?

> (06) The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
>
I always thought this ~ was a tittle. No maybe that a tild.

> (07) A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will
> bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the
> glass to the top. (works in 7Up also)
>
Gonna be a run on liquor stores tonight what with everyone testing this
statement.

> (08) Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
>
> (09) A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and
> cannot find a mate.
>
> (10) A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
>
> (11) A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
>
> (12) 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy
> Meals.
>
> (13) Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
>
> (14) The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had
> red eyes. He was an albino.
>
> (15) 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were
> misspelled.
>
Whose dictionary did they check this against?

> (16) During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car
> can be seen in the distance.
>
Blockbuster better have a lot of copies on hand tonight for rental!

> (17) On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong
> parents daily.
>
> (18) John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of
> Abraham Lincoln's son.
>
> (19) Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and
> sister.
>
> (20) Chocolate kills dogs. It affects a dog's heart and
> nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
>
Absolute proof we are not descended from dogs, thank goodness!

> (21) Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
>
> (22) Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WW ll If
> captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to
> reveal a map for escape.
>
> (23) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
>
Man that really stinks! I'll never be able to kiss my wife again after she
puts on her makeup!

> (24) Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into
> the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
>
> (25) Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he
> doesn't wear pants.
>
But his girlfriend plus Minnie and Mickey Mouse do!
Actually a fowl's private parts are not externally visible. Back in Agri
class in high school we were shown how to make it visible so you could
separate the rousters from the hens.

> (26) Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it
> sounds like Sue-ice.
>
> (27) Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
>
> (29) During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent
> their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to
> the extremely high costs in California during these boom years,
> it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for
> servicing.
>
> (30) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
> one olive from each salad served in First Class.
>
They now save $4,000,000 by only serving an olive.

> (31) Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during
> World War II were made of wood.
>
> (32) The number of possible ways of playing the first four
> moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
>
> (33) 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 lower case letters.
>
> (34) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
>
> (35) There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with
> orange, purple and silver.
>
> (36) The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5
> dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
>
But what does it signify?

> (37) The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
> There was never a recorded Wendy before.
>
> (38) The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in
> World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
>
How do they know this?

> (39) There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back of the
> US 10 dollar bill.
>
> (40) Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him
> 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
>
Probably had to take some time off for fishing to have scales to mix his
paint!

> (41) If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it
> will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
>
I've seen this almost happen to people!

> (42) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w
> film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite
> of the norm.
>
> (43) If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd
> have $1.19. You would also have the largest amount of money in
> coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
>
> (44) The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's
> "Born in the USA."
>
> (45) The mask used by Michael Myers in the original
> "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
>
> (46) The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
>
> (47) 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.
>
Would a 3/4 inch steel rod have been legal?

> (48) The first product Motorola started to develop was a
> record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known
> player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves
> Motorola.
>
> (49) Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
>
> (50) By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back,
> you cannot sink into quicksand.
>
However, do not raise them above your head!

> (51) Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
>
> (52) Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to
> eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
>
Need to balance it out by spreading chocolate on the stalk!

> (53) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie
> Chaplin look-alike contest.
>
> (54) In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two
> moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size
> and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before
> either moon was discovered.
>
> (55) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from
> crying.
>
> (56) Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear
> Watson."
>
> (57) An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal
> for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
>
This is a strange one! What in the world was the reason?

> (58) Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
>
> (59) The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
>
> (60) The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being
> the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
>
> (61) Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go
> into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
>
The spacesuits or the astronauts?

> (62) Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer
> wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's
> Flight Simulator.
>
> (63) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
>
Is this true south of the equator, say in Australia?