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>THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T
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>1 . Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
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>2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
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>3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
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>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.
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>5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
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>6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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>7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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>8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He
>was albino.
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>9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
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>10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
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>11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
>will kill a small sized dog.
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>12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
>shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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>13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
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>14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
>wear pants.
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>15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
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>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.
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>17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
>other at the same time hence, multi-tasking was invented.)
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>18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War
II
>were made of wood.
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>19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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>20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was
never
>a recorded Wendy before!
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>21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
>purple, and silver!
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>22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years
>to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
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>23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go
>mad and sting itself to death.
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>24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
>Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
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>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.)
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>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.)
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>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.
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>28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
>for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market
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>the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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>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!
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>30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
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>31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
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>32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
>often stolen from Public Libraries.
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>33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
>because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
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>34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel
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>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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