40 Things You May Not Know

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1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotoon. 2. The 57 on Heinz catsup bottle represents the veriaties of pickle the company once had. 3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weaks-otherwise it will digest itself. 4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. 5. The dot over a letter 'i' is called a "tittle". 6.A raisin dropped in a glass of fersh champagne will bounce up and down continiously from the botton of the glass to the top. 7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. 8. A duck's quack doesn't echo...no one knows why. 9. 40% of McDonald's profits comes from the sales of Happy meals. 10.Every person has a unique tongue print (no licking at the scene of crime!). 11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were mispelled. 12. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. 13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 14. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. 15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. 16. Chocolate affect's a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small size dog. 17. Orcas(killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 18. Most lipstick contains fish scales(eeww). 19. Donald Ducks comes were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! 20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 21. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' bacause in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on the top of the case that stored the smaller,'lower case' letters. 22. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other et the same time. 23.Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II wrer made of wood. 24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before! 26. There are no words in the dictionary that rythm with orange, purple, and silver. 27. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. 28. A tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 29. The masks used by Micheal Myers in the original "HAlloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white. 30. 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. 31. By raising your legs slowly and lying in your back, you can't sink in quicksand. 32. 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. 33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. 34. The first product MOtorola started to dvelop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. 35. 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. 36. Chewing gums while peeling onions will keep you from crying! 37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 39. Back in the mind to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hunderd percent compatible unless it could run MIcrosoft's Flight Simulator game. 40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat neens before they go into space bacause passing wind in a space suit damages them.