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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. 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.

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 with 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 old English 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 allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

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."

Answer 1

Very interesting. I have heard some of these but #9 about the babies is very scary. #23 - they probably granted some guy a million dollar grant to find out about the poor scorpions. George Carlin is funny and right on most of the time.

Answer 2

Vinster8: "A longstanding urban legend had linked Lucci to comedienne Phyllis Diller as Diller's daughter. The two entertainers are not related in any way." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lucci) So you are correct man, number 5 is an urban legend, however,

All paper made before 1867 was made from hemp. Drafts of both the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence was written on the paper of the time: hemp and rag paper. Rags being made from the old clothing of the time, which was mostly hemp for poor people and cotton for rich people. (A hemp shirt could be bought for 90 cents, a cotton shirt over $100 in the 1700's) The technology for reducing trees to paper pulp were not invented until that time.

Final drafts of both documents were printed and distributed on parchment, which is animal skins. But the documents were drafted on hemp paper. Most bibles, even today are made from hemp paper produced in France.

Answer 3

I don't know for sure if they used to do this with grapes but I know they did it with orange trees. In between the trees, the farmer would have these basins. When the farmer would hear about a frost coming, he would pour oil/gas into the basins and ignite it. The basins were like little chimneys--they let out warm smoke to keep the frost from freezing the oranges and rotting them. Sometimes, this would go on for days depending on the inclement weather. If the farmer ran out of fuel, he was out of luck if the frost kept up. The groves would be full of smoke from the burning fuel.

Answer 4

Did you also know that Leonard Nemoy who played Mr. Spock of Start Trek directed the film Three Men and A Baby?

Did you also know that the color orange is an illusion created by inflation?

Answer 5

ERRRRRR!!!!! NUMBER 29 IS WRONG!!! There are no such things as negative calories, and apples have 80 calories per medium sized apple, so they are definitely NOT negative calories. Celery would be the only one to be considered one, but technically everything we ingest (besides water) has calories to burn.

Answer 6

I printed this out. I'm mailing it to some friends. This is so funny.

Answer 7

2 and 5 are definitely wrong...

Answer 8

Hahaha! excellent

That one about the babies is a bit weird though...

Answer 9

Very good, I enjoyed reading those.

Answer 10

Very interesting..I will pass this on to some of my friends! :]]